'Enterprise immune system' sees share price slump
US private equity investor Thoma Bravo has pulled out of its planned takeover of Darktrace, causing shares in the UK cybersecurity company to plummet.…
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Cisco finds custom malware in North Korea's latest cyberespionage effort
The North Korean state-sponsored crime ring Lazarus Group is behind a new cyberespionage campaign with the goal to steal data and trade secrets from energy providers across the US, Canada and Japan, according to Cisco Talos.…
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As deadline for mandatory code rewrite approaches, Manifest v3 still looks like a step backward
Analysis In January next year, Chrome browser extensions – such as ad blockers and other privacy tools – will stop working if they are reliant on an API called Manifest v2 (MV2).…
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Bike and car accessory slinger fined £30,000 for hitting send on more than 499k unsolicited emails
Bike and car accessory retailer Halfords has found itself in the wrong lane with Britain’s data watchdog for sending hundreds of thousands of unsolicited marketing emails to members of the public.…
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Lightbend's Akka shifts from Apache 2.0 license to BSL 1.1 – but critics not pleased about pricing
Lightbend is fed up with commercial entities using its open source wares in production environments and giving nothing back to the FOSS community, so is making an alteration to the licensing of a popular product.…
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Protein predication it can do, the next steps not so much – not that it was trained for this
Analysis DeepMind's AlphaFold model has predicted nearly all known protein structures discovered yet, though its ability to help scientists discover new drugs remains unproven.…
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So are ITSM tools that can’t spread, data tools, and private 5G. But outsourcing is cool again
Analyst firm Forrester Research has published its 2023 planning guide for Technology Architecture and Delivery and warned that IT departments will face increased spending scrutiny as economic conditions tighten.…
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Or if you're looking for something lower power, it can be had with a pentacore Celeron
If you’ve ever thought to yourself these single board computers (SBC) could use a few more cores, Asus’ Aaeon latest system might be right up your alley.…
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Yes, that’s a lot to digest: the core of it is an allegation that Marshall Islands legislators were bribed to make it possible
About halfway between The Philippines and Hawaii is a place called Rongelap Atoll that’s infamous for having been unintentionally irradiated after 1954 nuclear weapons test conducted by the USA at nearby Bikini Atoll.…
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Odd couple will tie the knot in late September – but there's still no sign what's in store
Citrix has announced that its planned de-listing and merger with Tibco has cleared regulatory hurdles and the two companies will therefore become one during the last week of September 2022.…
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We guess new chips are only for Pros
At this week’s big iPhone launch, Apple's custom Arm-compatible chips – known as Apple Silicon – received little fanfare compared to what the processors have enjoyed at previous events.…
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Tech billionaire can tap into Mudge whistleblower complaint, though
A judge has turned down Elon Musk's request to delay his trial with Twitter.…
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The Monoprice Joule is an Ender style clone at a bargain price.
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From budget to wireless, we've tested the best gaming headsets, and these are our picks for 2022.
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We help you find the best resin 3D printers for beginners, under $300 and more.
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These are the best SSD and HDD deals — guaranteed to expand the storage on your PC without emptying your wallet.
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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger spoke at the Evercore ISI TMT conference, revealing that he expects the company to continue losing data center market share until 2024.
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AMD's forthcoming Ryzen 7 7700X shows up in new single-and multi-threaded benchmarks.
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Valve has put out an update for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive that not only makes it startup faster but improves Steam Input handling on Steam Deck too.
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Paper Animal RPG is a rather cute looking upcoming game. Currently in development from Cuddling Raccoons Studio it's a mixture of exploration, dungeon crawling, combat and a little relaxation by the campfire too.
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is an upcoming folk horror narrative-driven point and click adventure, with a really great mixture of animated pixel-art and Native Linux support.
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Seems we're due the next-gen lot of GPUs from NVIDIA soon, as they've begun their teaser campaign for something big.
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Kommiku is a feature-rich manga reader available exclusively for Linux. Try it out!
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Researchers from Google and IBM see unprecedented blurring of lines.
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Plus glimpses of the updated Apple Watch SE and Apple Watch Series 8.
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The iPhone 14 looks the same, but the 14 Pro offers an alternative to the notch.
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The once dominant e-cig company faces yet more legal challenges and FDA scrutiny.
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Dealmaster includes MacBook Pros, Google Nest Hubs, Apple Watches, and more.
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Gone, but probably not too soon: Apple's weirdly old, slightly discounted Watch.
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PlayStation CEO says Microsoft "undermines the principle" of cross-platform access.
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Persistent reports of poor sales mean small-screened phones are vanishingly rare.
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Previously, Google Maps' "efficient" routes were only for gas vehicles.
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Proteins form gel-like filaments that stiffen into networks to support dried-out cells.
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DeadBolt has already infected thousands of QNAP storage devices this year.
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Interactive map makes it easier to track security threats from state to state.
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New iPhone software will bring lock screen changes, passkeys, and app updates.
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Bigger cameras and a notch-less design headline Apple's flagships.
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There's not much new here compared to 2021, to be honest.
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Apple's in-ear headphones get their first update since their 2019 debut.
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Brightest Apple Watch display yet, plus aerospace titanium case, built-in cellular.
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Lineup includes Apple Watch Ultra, Apple Watch Series 8, and Apple Watch SE.
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Numbers will accommodate a range of new CPUs that sometimes use older Zen cores.
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After hearing, judge rejects Musk request to delay Twitter trial by four weeks.
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"The font for developers who like Minecraft a bit too much."
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The skeleton of an individual known as Tebo 1 dates to around 31,000 years old.
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Project uses genealogy website that can be accessed by law enforcement.
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Showers likely a “point source” of sunscreen contamination and a threat to coral reefs.
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Nintendo's "coolest" series has run out of fresh ideas, both online and off.
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Officials hope booster uptake will at least match seasonal flu shot coverage.
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We've tested a European-spec Buzz, but the US models have to wait until 2024.
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With Crash Detection (no, not that kind) and satellite-powered SOS when cell service is absent
Apple on Wednesday enticed favored members of the media and its ever-enthusiastic employees from Cupertino to hear word of the company's iPhone 14, Apple Watch 8, and second generation AirPods Pro earbuds.…
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Some of the hardest things in programming: Handling times and dates
The decision last month by Chilean leaders to delay a switch to Daylight Savings Time (DST) by a week could cause headaches for some Windows users if they don't implement the workaround outlined by Microsoft.…
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Whether this works as advertised is key
Ring's battery-powered video-doorbells-slash-surveillance cameras can finally turn on end-to-end encryption (E2EE).…
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Finding Zen just got a little easier
AMD is changing the way it names mobile processors to make it more obvious whether you’re getting their freshest Zen cores or last year’s leftovers.…
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FBI warns that Vice Society threat group is ramping up attacks on the education sector
The Vice Society threat group is ramping up ransomware attacks on US school districts just as students around the country return to the classroom, the FBI and other federal agencies are warning.…
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Company claims tech can detect quantum information at room temperature
A semiconductor company called Archer Materials says it is working with chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries to help it develop high-volume production quantum processor technology.…
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Could replace fossil fuels in several energy-hungry industries in hot climates without water use
Scientists have produced hydrogen from thin air, a development they say could help industry harvest the promising eco-fuel in the most arid environments.…
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Ideas include restructuring key goals and expunging needless meetings
Google execs are embarking on a company-wide efficiency drive to make the digital advertising and cloud computing business 20 percent more productive.…
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'It's hard to imagine a more dangerous scenario,' Mandiant Intel VP told The Reg
Mandiant has named a new threat group, APT42, that it says functions as the cyberspy arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which has plotted to murder US citizens including former National Security Advisor John Bolton.…
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Rules apply for next decade, warns Commerce Department, which can claw back cash
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has warned that the US Commerce Department "has the ability to claw back money" if recipients of CHIPS Act semiconductor manufacturing grants "compromise national security" by developing leading-edge tech in China in the next decade.…
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Rules apply for next decade, warns Commerce Department, which can claw back cash
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has warned that the US Commerce Department "has the ability to claw back money" if recipients of CHIPS Act semiconductor manufacturing grants "compromise national security" by developing leading-edge tech in China in the next decade.…
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Kaspersky research finds Minecraft and Roblox have the most malicious files associated with them
With 3 billion players globally, the $200 billion gaming market is an increasingly ripe target for cybercriminals – with the perennially popular Minecraft one of the most targeted lures.…
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Both platforms based on Kyro semi-custom Arm CPUs
Qualcomm has unveiled fresh smartphone platforms in its widely used Snapdragon mobile line that target the mid-range and mass-volume segments respectively.…
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Anyone planning to migrate to IPv6 then? Bueller?
French cloud provider OVHcloud has opened up a Bring Your Own IP service, which it said allows customers to reuse existing public IPv4 blocks as failover addresses in the event of an outage.…
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Emerging field now has baseline definitions for vendors to work with
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has at last published version 1.0 of its Computational Storage Architecture and Programming Model, the specs meant to help develop the new performance-boosting tech by providing interoperability between different vendors.…
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Meanwhile, Federal Reserve sentiment sees US tech stock fall amid uncertainty
While US tech stocks have suffered in response to rising inflation, interest rates and general economic uncertainty, the UK tech sector — or what is left of it — is doing worse.…
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Cloud and 5G mean the world needs beefier backbones and NTT thinks this could build them
Japan's NTT Corporation claims it has developed technologies that allow data transmission at 1.2Tbit/s per wavelength in an optical system.…
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Talk about dirt cheap
Scientists claim they have fed a strong titanium alloy and a sprinkling of simulated Martian regolith into a 3D printer to study how future astronauts may one day be able to print tools and rocket parts in space.…
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Particle accelerators could be next casualty of Russia's war on Ukraine
CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, is preparing to idle some of its particle accelerators to save electricity, currently in short supply due to the war in Ukraine.…
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National Security Agency apparently has tools that crack Solaris boxes
China has accused the United States of a savage cyber attack on a university famed for conducting aerospace research and linked to China's military.…
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MP alleges taxpayer database – which holds personal info on millions – has come under attack
A Pakistani parliamentary committee has labelled its own cybersecurity agency "incompetent".…
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After more than two decades, the space agency's PowerPC love affair appears to be at an end
Chip designer SiFive said Tuesday its RISC-V-compatible CPU cores will power NASA’s just-announced High-Performance Spaceflight Computer (HPSC).…
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Low-noise tool hopes to highlight vulnerabilities imported into projects
The open source Go programming language, developed by Google, has added support for vulnerability management in a way designed to preserve programmers' patience.…
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For less than $230, you get ray tracing and strong 1080p gaming.
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These are the best portable monitors to ponder if you're looking to expand real estate for your laptop.
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Apple's iPhone 14 Pro will be powered by the new A16.
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We break down the best computer monitors for upgrading your setup in 2022.
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A new update release of Raspberry Pi OS brings tweaks and new features to everyone's favorite single board computer.
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The August Steam Hardware Survey indicates Nvidia's RTX 30-series GPUs are the most popular among gamers now, followed by the GTX 10-series.
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Here are the best X570 motherboards we've tested, for your AMD Ryzen PC build needs.
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We tested 90 different thermal pastes to help you find the best one to help cool your CPU.
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Nvidia is keen to shift remaining stocks of its high-end Ampere GPUs, and is now adding bundles with newsworthy PC game releases.
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Official specifications for Computational Storage have been launched, paving the way for hardware and software.
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Invite your friends to play on a server that lives in your home.
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MSI lists four of its AMD X670 and X670E motherboards, reveals prices.
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If you're into serious gaming and want the best tools available, the Logitech Pro X Superlight wireless gaming mouse for only $99 is a no-brainer.
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AMD has updated its mobile CPU model numbers for 2023 ahead of a new range of CPUs, including Mendocino and Dragon Range.
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AMD's upcoming RDNA 3 architecture and the Radeon RX 7000-series will ship before the end of the year. We look into the details and rumors of when to expect these GPUs.
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From cases to keyboards, wires and cameras, these products will help you make the most of your Raspberry Pi.
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The PS5 ‘1200’ model has a significantly smaller motherboard, and a more compact cooling system (with more copper). It also runs games while using 10% less power, a preliminary inspection has shown.
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The $50 billion Chips Act budget will be shared between makers of logic and memory chips, developers of advanced technologies.
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We've gathered the top pre-built desktop and laptop deals you can find.
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The Raspberry Pi HATs (Hardware Attached on Top) bring tons of extra functionality to your Pi. The best HATs allow you to build a retro gaming machine, develop an A.I., power a robot or just learn about programming.
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A nice upgrade even over the Mars 3.
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Find the right case for your Raspberry Pi.
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You’ve got the Raspberry Pi Pico, but what accessories do you need to get the most from this board?
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We tested ten different microSD cards on three different Pi models to help you find the fastest one for your Raspberry Pi.
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2K have plenty of good games under their belt and they have a new 2K Megahits Bundle with some top games and some classics included together.
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Previously available in Steam Labs, some of the biggest changes to the Steam Store in years are now live for everyone.
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They will be missed and this is technically now actually their last game, with the The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection officially out now with Linux support.
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Take on the detective role in Nine Noir Lives, a new "point and lick" comedy adventure game out now.
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist seems like a hard game to pin to a genre. It's a blending of a narrative adventure with RPG elements, deck-building and much more.
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Valve continues rolling out smaller updates to the Steam Deck Beta, with another update out now fixing some crashing issues.
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Grossman, Gilbert talk to us while playing final build, tease a 32-year-old secret.
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If previous XPS 15 models have turned you off, this one won't change your mind.
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OceanGate Expeditions shot the footage earlier this year with a manned submersible.
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Ukraine says Russia's military arsenal has dwindled by nearly half.
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FCC aims to release the most accurate US-wide broadband map to date in November.
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Security hole exists in a browser component known as Mojo.
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Selling iPhones without chargers only passes burden on to the consumer, feds say.
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Ars attended a test for the new hybrid endurance prototype car, the 963.
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Google's tablet-focused release is finally coming to large-screen Samsung devices.
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Female skeleton was buried with sickle placed across her neck and a padlock on big toe.
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Gallium nitride allows for more ports, smaller size than Apple's charger.
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AI image synthesis goes open source, with big implications.
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This stellar nursery is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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New anthology of British series actually manages to collect the work that makes it great.
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Valve hardware provides a simple, authentic emulated experience.
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Facebook is reviewing the decision.
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"We cannot work with a partner who is completely trampling on those values."
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Being subcontractors, their working conditions ain't our problem – US giant's stance
A group of delivery drivers subcontracting for Amazon in Japan have unionized, claiming the internet titan's AI software often plans routes that are impossible to complete within set deadlines.…
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Online booking systems and other services knocked offline amid network intrusion
The IT systems of InterContinental Hotels Group, the massive hospitality organization that operates 17 hotel brands around the world, have been compromised, causing ongoing disruption to the corporation's online booking systems and other services.…
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Good for the environment? Bad for the customer, say Brazilian officials after fining iGiant, banning certain sales
Brazil's government is freezing certain iPhone sales in the country and fining Apple for removing chargers from its smartphones, something officials there have declared a practice harmful to consumers, despite being presented as an act of environmental heroism. …
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Plus $39 billion in subsidies for 'domestic' effort that will welcome foreign semiconductor players
Leading foundry operators stand to benefit from a 25 percent investment tax credit (ITC) on domestic fab projects, according to a document published by the US Department of Commerce this week.…
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Legislation also aims to tackle wage gaps around gender, race, and ethnicity
California lawmakers passed a bill that aims to promote pay equity by requiring employers to post salary ranges with job listings in the state.…
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FBI and CISA on-site to assist with incident response over Labor Day weekend
Cybercriminals hit the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) over the holiday weekend with a ransomware attack that temporarily shut down email, computer systems, and applications.…
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Hundreds of 'intentional' violations could cost Zuck and Co $30k each
Facebook has been found guilty in Washington of breaking the state's strict campaign finance transparency laws – again – and was defeated in its attempt to get a judge to loosen those laws to favor it. …
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Worok uses mix of publicly available tools, custom malware to steal info, gang active since 2020
A cyberespionage group has targeted government agencies and big-name corporations throughout Asia since at least 2020, using the notorious ProxyShell vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange to gain initial access.…
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Meta set to the appeal the data protection authority's near $400m penalty
Ireland's data protection authority has fined Instagram almost $400 million for mishandling children's data.…
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By striking down Google and Facebook, the iMaker's transformation is complete
Although Apple's sales pitch for the idea was protecting users' privacy, it appears the company's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) initiative has been kind to its wallet as well, pushing it to the top of the mobile app advertising market in the past year.…
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Teams too big, operate in silos, lack subject matter experts and C-suite exec buy-in
Public sector technology buyers have the lengthiest average buying cycle of any industry vertical in part due to a lack of vendor specific information on products often hampering the decision making process.…
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Lloyd's defends stance as critics say policy tweaks make it less worthwhile to spend on premiums
Critics unhappy about insurers excluding certain nation-state attacks from cyber policies should consider the alternative: higher prices, said a defiant Lloyd's of London.…
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Leadership believes path to recovery is through investing in times of crisis
Chipmaker SK hynix intends to invest nearly $11 billion over the next five years on a new manufacturing plant in South Korea, showing confidence in the future despite the curent dip in demand for semiconductors.…
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Hypercloud will be facing some stiff competition in the hyperconverged infrastructure space, say analysts
Storage player SoftIron is extending its portfolio to the rest of the datacenter with the launch of a complete cloud infrastructure platform - a bold effort to take on better known brands in their own back yard.…
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All except Italy, that is
For the second year in a row, the UK is second worst in the G7 league of industrial nations for broadband speed, only faster than Italy, according to a report published today.…
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Smartphone software set to link more services to patients despite privacy fears
NHS Digital has awarded IBM a £52.4 million ($60.2 million) contract for supporting and developing the NHS App, which the UK government plans to make the standard way for health services to communicate with patients.…
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To sell or not to sell... that is the national security assessment, decision delayed once more
The UK government has asked for more time to make its final decision on whether to retroactively approve or block the sale of Newport Wafer Fab (NWF) company to Chinese owners.…
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It’s an eight-bit affair for the Apple II, complete with Flying Toasters and many other upgrades
Apple will on September 7th stage one of its live infomercials to launch products expected to include this year’s iPhone – complete with satellite messaging capabilities – plus wireless earbuds, an enhanced smart watch, and maybe even some new tablet computers.…
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16-year-old feature request to fix it judged so hard it doesn’t offer bang for buck – to Atlassian
After The Register covered the eleven years and counting wait for Atlassian to deliver custom domain names for its cloudy products, readers pointed out an even older open request: CONFCLOUD-7247 was filed on November 1st, 2006 and asks the software upstart to allow changes to the author of an existing page of its Confluence corporate Wiki.…
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Also separatism, nationalism, and whether Big Tech does enough to police user-generated content
India’s IT minister has picked a fight with Wikipedia after alleging that Pakistani entities edited a page describing a member of the men’s national cricket team in ways that suggest the player has separatist affiliations.…
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Whether you’re spending $500 or $4,000 on components, we’ve picked out the perfect parts for your next PC build.
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SteelSeries new Apex 9 TKL and Apex 9 Mini keyboards feature hot-swappable optical switches with adjustable 2-point actuation.
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These are the best 4K gaming monitors available in 2022, including 144Hz, curved and HDR options.
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GPU prices at the start of September show a continued downward trend, particularly on the top models. Nvidia's RTX 3090 Ti has become almost affordable, and the RX 6900 XT now sits at just $700.
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Our picks for the best ultrabooks (super thin and light notebooks), along with other premium laptops now.
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It's large, expensive, and over the top! Nvidia's RTX 3090 Ti is on sale at Best Buy.
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YMTC becomes a 3D NAND flash memory supplier for Apple's products.
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Here are the best Intel and AMD motherboards for all the recent processors. These boards offer great features and performance, according to our rigorous tests.
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Users who buy an Arc A580, A750 or A770 GPU alongside a Core i5-12600KF or better (12th Gen only) before the end of the year to qualify for a games and apps bundle potentially worth $370+.
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The best college laptops offer great battery life, portability and the power to tackle everything your major requires. Our list includes Windows PCs, Macs and some gaming systems for those who like to play when they aren't working.
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A new board from Aaeon, the GENE-ADP6, offers Alder Lake processors and the chance to drive four screens from a tiny form factor.
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A new VRM cooling solution has been created that will work in almost every computer case featuring a rear chassis fan, and it's actually quite useful.
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If you're running a local server, having a consistent IP can be helpful. Make sure your Pi has the same IP every time you boot it.
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On the cusp of Ryzen 7000, AMD's Zen 2-powered Rzyen 3 4100 and Ryzen 5 4500 in an attempt to tackle Intel's Alder Lake Core i3.
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A new docking station gives Steam Deck users access to a 2280 slot M.2 SSD for storage expansion and also connects to external displays.
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Here are the best gaming monitors for PC available in 2022, from budget displays to 144Hz, 4K and curved.
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Nvidia increases its share of the desktop GPU market despite inventory corrections and a decrease in quarterly revenue.
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Here's the Intel 13th-Gen Raptor Lake release date, benchmarks, specifications, pricing, and all we know about the new chip architecture.
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There are lots of awesome monitor deals dropping every day! Here are the best offers worth your hard-earned money.
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The Edgerunners Update is out now for Cyberpunk 2077, along with the Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty expansion getting a reveal and a 2023 release date. Some fixes included for Steam Deck finally too.
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The newest monthly bundle is here with Humble Choice and it is once again actually pretty good. Time to go over what to expect from it on Linux desktop and Steam Deck.
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It's pretty staggering just how advanced Vintage Story is becoming as a survival game. It's still relatively unknown but in my eyes it already rivals many popular games and another huge upgrade is out now.
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Ready for a different kind of city builder? The Wandering Village is coming into Early Access on September 14th.
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Void Scrappers Prologue, the new free version of the bigger upcoming Void Scrappers is out now and I had a chance to try it before release and came away very impressed.
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TFC: The Fertile Crescent is a really criminally overlooked pixel-art RTS that just got a major upgrade for all players.
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Ready to check out more upcoming games? Shield Cat is a promising action-RPG adventuring collectathon with some wonderful pixel-art that blends in some great lighting and a new demo is out now.
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Prodeus, the crowdfunded first-person shooter that blends together new and old design styles, will no longer be doing a Native Linux version and instead will ensure it works nicely with Proton.
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Linux is everywhere and everyone keeps talking about it. And that gives you FOMO. This article will help you decide if Linux is really worth trying.
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Intel details features and capabilities of Arc A770 8GB and 16GB boards, Arc 750 cards.
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Save some space without sacrificing performance or looks with these compact PC cases.
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Here are the best cases for custom PC builds. Our recommendations come from our tests of cooling and noise.
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A GeForce RTX 3080 20GB from MSI has surfaced, proving Nvidia was at least thinking about selling a 20GB version in the past.
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We've tested dozens of external hard drives and SSDs to pick out those that offer the best balance of performance, features and price.
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Happy Labor Day everyone, and we hope you're getting to enjoy the day to the fullest. Today we've had a look around the internet for some of the best Labor Day deals on some of our favorite tech products.
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We have seen GeForce models with the same model number but different memory configs before, but we think the lower-end RTX 4080 highlighted today will be an RTX 4070 (Ti) card.
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USB 4 can do even better and support aggregate bandwidth of up to 120 Gbps.
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These are the best air and liquid/AIO CPU coolers for all consumer systems, from small form-factor builds to overclocked big rigs.
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It is interesting to see some performance uplift in the iGPU, but it is only about 2 or 3% faster than the UHD Graphics 770 in the Core i9-12900 processors.
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Biostar’s B660M Silver is a well-appointed budget Micro ATX board that costs under $160. You get two PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 sockets, four SATA ports, a premium audio codec, and a rear IO panel full of USB ports. There is stiff competition around this price, however.
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There's a great deal on the WD SN850 1TB NVMe SSD (with Heatsink) for just $109 at Amazon right now. This is one of the best Gen 4 SSDs on the market.
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You've heard this before right? As of today, Valve will be sending out even more emails each time to invite people to purchase their reserved Steam Deck.
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Love puzzle games? Check out the new Native Linux release of SiNKR 3. It's a wordless puzzle game that needs you to hook and pull various objects and it's quite a gem.
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The Kubuntu Focus team recently announced the Kubuntu Focus NX, a small but surprisingly mighty little Linux desktop.
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Need more storage space for your Steam Deck when docked up to a TV or monitor? JSAUX have returned with their next-generation Steam Deck Dock and it sounds pretty interesting.
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Nearly a whole year after the release, the point and click psychological horror detective adventure game Saint Kotar now has a Native Linux version available.
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Scathe is a brand new FPS from Damage State and Kwalee that seemed interesting from some previews before release. I took a look and did not come away impressed. You could say I'm being scathing of this one.
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Apparently now a Quality of Life Update means adding a launcher to existing games and breaking them, if you're 2K that is. Here's how to skip the launcher on BioShock Remastered 1 & 2 and BioShock Infinite.
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Can tech hold its own among an overflowing in-tray?
Former foreign secretary Liz Truss has been voted in as the UK's next prime minister – at least by about 80,000 Conservative Party members – and will face a barrage of policy decisions. Questions over the cost of living and energy crises will top the agenda, but tech policy also needs her attention.…
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From the department of 'what fresh hell?'
Weddings already suck, and the tasteful wedding is becoming ever rarer. If the ceremony is not at a Victorian folly that costs more to book than a normal person's annual salary, you could well be in for a different kind of statement.…
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Launch postponements also a part of the writeoff as company pins hopes on SpaceX
OneWeb has taken a $229.2 million hit after it cancelled launches from Russia's Baikonur facility, and a number of its low Earth orbit satellites that were waiting to be sent to space were not returned.…
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Also, Microsoft’s one-click TikTok trick, a 14-year old Aussie cracks ASD encryption in an hour, and more
In brief NATO officials are investigating after criminals put up some data for sale on dark forums that they claim is "classified" information stolen from European missile maker MBDA.…
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SLS rocket is a mix of old and new
NASA's Space Launch System might look like a mishmash of heritage Space Shuttle parts but it's all new hardware, and the team who built the twin boosters and engines have been talking about the challenges of bringing designs from the 1970s into a lunar future.…
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Culture secretary talks up pre-Commons reading as UK waits to hear who new leader will be
On the day the UK is set to appoint its new prime minister, digital and culture secretary Nadine Dorries is introducing legislation in Parliament she promises will “drop unnecessary box-ticking and measures stifling British businesses.”…
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We trawled through the licensing terms and spoke to the vendors so you don't have to
Feature For developers, there is no debate. The future of the database is open source. A glance at the 2022 Stack Overflow survey of around 70,000 code-wranglers shows nearly all pros use one of the two leading open source RDBMSes, PostgreSQL (46.5 percent) or MySQL (45.7 percent), although they use other systems as well.…
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Just one big GUI mess
Opinion The sight of a former executive laying into their old company is rarely less than delicious. And when that company is Microsoft, the exec is head of user experience, and the complaint is about the solid slab of sadness that is the Windows 11 Start menu? This calls for not just regular salted popcorn, but truffle-oil popcorn on a silver platter carried in by a butler.…
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Exchange Online face Halloween deadline
Don't say you weren't warned.…
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Windows Defender update fixed the mess after a weekend of false positive weirdness
Microsoft appears to have fixed a problem that saw its Defender antivirus program identify apps based on the Chromium browser engine and/or Electron JavaScript framework as malware, and suggest users remove them.…
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‘I had a sharp new suit and a misplaced sense of confidence’ – and made a costly mistake
Before you shell out big bucks to engage the services of consultants, perhaps consider this week’s instalment of Who, Me? and the adventures of a reader we’ll call “Norman” for the duration of this tale.…
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Pilot scheme running in Europe, APAC, sees ad giant still take a four percent cut
Google has started a test of alternative payment systems in its Play store.…
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Escalation of targeted threats is an ‘emergency’ that required ‘dangerous’ decision ‘we are not comfortable with’, says CEO
Cloudflare has decided to stop providing its services to Kiwi Farms, just days after defending the site’s eligibility for its services.…
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PLUS: Australia mints a physical crypto-coin; Alibaba Cloud claims world's biggest DC; India’s space airbags; and more
China will conduct a three month blitz to cleanse the local internet of "rumors and false information".…
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Blending Māori knowledge into federally funded crayfish research makes for better science.
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The best ThinkPad qualities are sadly diluted, but performance is excellent.
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A study on the consequences of becoming a monk related to evolutionary fitness.
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The Chinese forum poster shared an image of the GeForce RTX 3090 Super alongside a GPU-Z info page which reports the card as a GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.
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Chinese content creator pitched Intel's upcoming Core i9-13900K engineering sample (ES) against a Core i9-12900K.
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We wade into the endless debate: Who makes the best CPU, AMD or Intel? Here's the blow-by-blow in ten categories.
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Our RAM benchmark hierarchy ranks memory kits of all frequencies and capacities for any budget.
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The Promise87 is unique and excellent. It doesn’t come cheap and lacks backlighting that could make it even better, but Wuque has delivered an excellent boutique typing option for keyboard enthusiasts.
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Here are the gaming laptop deals we've seen.
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Whether you're looking for PC components, peripherals or prebuilt systems, these are the best deals on tech.
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Checking whether plant-based burgers may have lighter environmental footprints.
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Researcher Ben Abraham lays out how the game industry can lessen its carbon footprint.
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"Every time we saw a leak, it pretty quickly exceeded our flammability limits."
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Top official spells out simply why America is going back to the Moon
Interview "There is no SpaceX without NASA," Thomas Zurbuchen, an associate administrator at the US space agency's Science Mission Directorate, told The Register this week as a Falcon 9 lurked in the background at Cape Canaveral.…
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Hardware leaker shares the alleged specifications for Intel's Emerald Rapids Xeon processors.
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By tweaking a few settings in Raspberry Pi imager, you can control your Pi over the network and will never need a screen.
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The Crucial P3 SSD is an efficient budget drive with capacity to spare.
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DeepCool delivers yet another impressive air cooler with its AK500. Our tests show it can handle thermal demands over 200W while remaining quiet.
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The Logitech G705 is a small, contoured wireless gaming mouse that performs well but doesn’t stand out.
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Get the latest news, stocks, jokes using RSS feeds and just a little Python. We use the latest version of Thonny to write our own, custom web app.
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Dealmaster includes MacBook Pros, OLED TVs, AirPods Max, video games freebies, and more.
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Tune in at 1 pm EST on September 7, 2022, to see what's next from Apple.
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Evidence suggests eagle was part of a wave of feathered invaders.
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"There’s no guarantee we’re going to get off on Saturday."
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SLS - Sitting, Leaking Slowly?
It was second time unlucky for NASA as its Space Launch System rocket remained rooted to its Florida launch pad following a second scrub of its Moon mission.…
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Plus: Use machine learning to understand your cat ... possibly
In brief A man won an art competition with an AI-generated image crafted, and some people aren't best pleased about it.…
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Plus: Truth Social barred from Play until it shows just one iota of decency
Google and its YouTube subsidiary have joined other social media networks pledging to keep the 2022 US midterm elections safe and free from Russian trolls — and anyone else spewing democracy-damaging disinformation – by taking down such content.…
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Look who misunderstood the consequences a Solana close command
OptiFi, a decentralized options exchange using the Solana blockchain, inadvertently disabled its mainnet service with a misunderstood command and locked up some $661,000 worth of USDC 'digital dollar' tokens.…
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Want some games that will test your brain and perhaps help you learn a little in the process? The Level Up and Learn: Programming Games bundle from Humble Bundle will do just that.
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Fingers crossed this prodigious test will have a good weather experience
NASA will try to launch its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to the Moon on Saturday after its first attempt on August 29 was scrubbed due to what turned out to be a faulty sensor on one of its core engines.…
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More silicon sales for us says Qualcomm
Meta’s latest move in the effort to reinvent Second Life, or roll out the metaverse, involves building better VR chips and it's trusting Qualcomm with the job.…
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Users will now be able to blur or replace their backgrounds during video meetings or calls
Microsoft is making it easier for Teams to work with virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) in a bid to grow the number of monthly active users on the collaboration platform.…
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Outsourced assembly and test a key missing part of supply chain, and foreign entities aren't beyond the pale
Stakeholders in the semiconductor industry have a clear-eyed view of the changes that should happen in order for the US to rebuild a leading position in chip manufacturing, and a wide-ranging approach addressing the entire supply chain is needed.…
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'Improved algorithm' set to keep miscreants at bay, web-based taxi service promises
The taxi offshoot of troubled Russian tech giant Yandex has been hit by online pranksters, who yesterday ordered dozens of cabs to a single address in central Moscow, resulting in a major traffic jam.…
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'Improved algorithm' set to keep miscreants at bay, web-based taxi service promises
The taxi offshoot of troubled Russian tech giant Yandex has been hit by online pranksters, who yesterday ordered dozens of cabs to a single address in central Moscow, resulting in a major traffic jam.…
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UMC founder Robert Tsao wants to train more than 3m 'civilian warriors' and sharpshooters
A Taiwanese semiconductor magnate is to provide the money to prime several million "civilian warriors" and marksmen to help defend the island nation in the event of an invasion by China.…
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National Labor Relations Board says company had not met the burden of proof for its objections
Amazon's attempt to rerun the election that resulted in workers unionizing at a warehouse in New York City have been shut down by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).…
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Or so says a hopeful IDC after releasing latest forecast of doom
The pandemic fueled buying frenzy in the PC industry looks to be well and truly over with analysts at IDC forecasting a double digit decline in shipments this year, and growth hopes for next pinned on a Windows 10 enterprise refresh.…
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OS support includes Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC and Linux options
Intel has made available versions of its 12th-generation Core processors optimized for edge and IoT applications, claiming the purpose-built chips enable smaller form factor designs, but with the AI inferencing performance to analyze data right at the edge.…
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What could possibly go wrong?
The UK government has suggested IT contractors should challenge errors in their tax status and reclaim overpaid tax through self-assessment.…
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Rules for devices including phones aimed at reducing environmental impact of scroll addiction
The European Union is proposing legislation which will make manufacturers of tablets and smartphones offer longer-life batteries and spare parts for at least five years.…
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Brit watchdog says what we're all thinking, motions for deeper investigation
Following the launch of a merger inquiry into Microsoft's acquisition of video game developer and publisher Activision Blizzard in July, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said yesterday it had identified potential concerns about the tie-up.…
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When the PCs were pilfered by ram raiding rotters, green screens proved their worth
On Call Welcome again to On-Call, The Register’s trawl through readers’ reminiscences of tech trials and tribulations.…
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vSphere users can start smaller without paying cluster-bucks
VMware Explore VMware has made a profound change to its partnership with AWS by removing the need to run its wares on dedicated clusters.…
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Increased ‘configuration not supported’ heartbreak sparks move
Microsoft’s networking team has made a change to the way certifies network interface cards (NICs) for use in Windows Server.…
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You’re going to need new cables and learn to recognize revised logos
The USB Promoter Group has announced version 2.0 of the USB4 spec and promises it can carry data at 80Gbps.…
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From hero to zero-day ... to plain zero
Three former US government cyber-spies who, among other things, illicitly compromised and snooped on Americans' devices for the United Arab Emirates government have been banned from participating in international arms exports under a deal reached with Uncle Sam.…
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Producing vital gas out of Red Planet's hostile atmosphere? Truly a test of Perseverance
The oxygen-generator onboard NASA's Perseverance rover, which has repeatedly extracted the vital gas from the Martian atmosphere in tests, has been detailed in a scientific paper published this week.…
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The best gaming rewards are the 1-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate trial, the Forza Horizon 5 Premium Add-Ons Bundle, and full game download codes for Grounded.
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Our GPU benchmarks hierarchy ranks all the current and previous generation graphics cards based on real-world gaming tests. Find out how the latest GPUs stack up.
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The Lenovo ThinkPad Z13 has an attractive and fresh design, but its AMD components aren't always the fastest at office tasks.
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Entry-level Seasonic's ATX 3.0 PSUs with 12VHPWR connector for next-generation graphics cards not going to be too expensive.
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Having already covered a price drop on the 5800X3D this week, it's a surprise to see its price fall even further. But, thanks to a Labor Day sale, you can now pick up AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D on eBay (via seller Antonline) for just $365.
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Igor's Lab ran tests on a GeForce RTX 3080 with a liquid cooler to test various thermal paste application techniques.
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PC unit shipments heading south and will not rebound to pandemic levels any time soon.
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DDR5 prices are expected to duplicate what happened in 2021, and rapidly decline by 2023.
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A deluxe three-in-one machine for makers short on space.
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Intel has shared lower level details along with multiple ray tracing benchmarks for the upcoming Arc A770 graphics card, pitching it against the GeForce RTX 3060.
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Researchers analyzed real recommendations to hundreds of YouTube users.
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Flat-to-curved screens have an identity crisis.
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It's not in the US, it's not for games, and devs will only save 4 percent.
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T-Mobile spends $304 million to win over 90% of available 2.5 GHz licenses.
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Requiring parts and manuals access part of broader environmental initiative.
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The equation named after him helps organize our thoughts on extraterrestrial life.
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Dev demeaned a trans streamer in a post joking about a "sex change" for the game.
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I want to find—not buy—my cool-looking loot.
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When adult females emerge from pupae, friction shuffles the bacteria to genital area.
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Jeep's first plug-in hybrid SUV hits the mark on ride quality, comfort.
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"We are working together with commercial space companies and growing the economy."
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USB4 vs. Thunderbolt 4—and everything else to know about the newest USB standard.
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Group that pulled off successful attack on PyPI has humble origins.
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Fog Reveal is "almost invisible" when attempting to search for it online.
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Paradox Interactive has announced some more goodies coming for Stellaris with the Toxoids Species Pack and a free update landing on September 20th.
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Splitgate, the first-person shooter with portals, is no longer getting actively developed as the developer has seemingly given up with it to move onto a new game.
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Is the hype of Wordle over yet? Okay good. Need something new to try each day? Why not take a little look over at Farmbound.
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[I] Doesn’t Exist is an up-and coming text-based game by LUAL Games that will combine old-school adventuring with modern design, most notably a narrative AI that promises to smooth out the player experience.
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OBS Studio is the free and open source video content creation kit for livestreaming and recording. Probably the best software in the world for it and OBS Studio 28.0 is out now.
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After waiting quite some time, Project Killswitch from dbrand for the Steam Deck is finally coming but there's been a few changes and it seems not everyone is happy with it.
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Valve continues tweaking and improving the Steam Deck software both the Steam Client and SteamOS. A new Beta is available with more improvements to Steam Input.
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The GOG Sale Finale is on and another game is being given away. This time it's Immortal Redneck, a pretty good FPS set in Egypt with rogue-lite elements.
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Another month has finished and the Steam Hardware & Software Survey has been refreshed. It shows once again that the Linux user share has risen.
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Lenovo dangles a platform-agnostic carrot in front of AR hopefuls.
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Users won't get refunds for hidden fee, but deal in Conn. imposes other conditions.
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"I don't know whether the business case closes today."
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A bigger screen, better specs, and more fitting OS could finally make foldable PCs a thing.
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Flaw resided in the app's deeplink verification process.
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"Everything I can see with my eyes, a person who is blind can feel with their fingers."
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Some of Dell's XPS 13 Plus notebooks with OLED displays have a screen panel glue problem.
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Alleged GeForce RTX 4080: Huge cooler, strange fonts, new fan.
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Cooler Master has unveiled two new computer chassis and a very expensive vertical GPU mount adapter with an extensive amount of flexibility.
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Micron announces new leading-edge memory fab in Idaho, coming online by 2030.
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We've done extensive testing with the Intel Arc A380, a graphics card with plenty of delays and a problematic launch. The latest drivers help, and Intel's video encoding options are ahead of everyone else, but most people should probably look elsewhere.
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It's that time of year when we anticipate the release of the next generation of PC tech, and also a great time to start picking up some deals. Today Intel's Core i7-12700KF is down to a low of $321 on Amazon.
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1TB disks (in 10TB caddies) are aimed at enterprises, and won't be ready until 2024.
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USB 4 version 2.0 has just been announced with incredibly speeds of up to 80Gbps.
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Here are our favorite gaming laptops for every need, based on our testing and reviews.
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With more DDR5 chips on the market, the price is likely to drop.
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TrendForce has revised down its NAND flash wafer contract price estimates from 15-20 to 30-35% during Q3 2022. It expects prices to dip a further 20% in Q4 this year.
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A new post has revealed the new naming scheme for AMD's upcoming Zen 4 and Zen 4c EPYC server processors.
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New high-performance GPU export rules to China affect AMD and China's multi-billion high-tech companies.
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Up your game with the best gaming mouse for your grip.
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The Seasonic Prime TX-1600 is one of the best PSUs, money can get you today.
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The Gigabyte B660M Aorus Pro AX is a generally well-appointed motherboard with a black-on-grey aesthetic. There are plenty of USB ports on the rear IO, but the performance was slower in some heavily multi-threaded tests.
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The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold has been reimagined with a 16.3-inch display, a new design and more powerful processors.
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Lenovo’s Legion Y32p-30 boast a 4K 144Hz panel with FreeSync Premium support.
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The Lenovo Glasses T1 create a virtual monitor to work with your phone or PC.
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Robert Hallock, the Director of Technical Marketing at AMD, shares details about the best memory settings on the latest Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 processors.
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U.S. government now requires Nvidia to obtain a license to sell A100, A100X, and H100-based products to China.
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They were asking for it, energy giant says
Thousands of Xcel Energy customers in Colorado this week discovered they’d been locked out of their smart thermostats, unable to adjust their air conditioning systems as local temperatures rose about well above 90°F this week.…
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How Fog Data Science sells records of your whereabouts, according to the EFF
For less than $10,000, and without a warrant, cops can buy large amounts of location data on private citizens and track people's movements over long periods of time.…
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Illinois, Arizona and Iowa are the big winners in connection plan
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says it's ready to disburse nearly $800 million to fund rural broadband deployments in 19 states, with Illinois, Arizona and Iowa getting just over half of the total pot. …
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$15 billion Idaho facility is the first step as chip biz feeds on CHIPS Act
US memory vendor Micron will spend $15 billion over the next decade to construct what it claims is the first memory fab built by a US manufacturer in America in the last 20 years.…
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Stephen Thaler is fighting the law, and the law is winning
Analysis Stephen Thaler, founder of software biz Imagination Engines, has waged a years-long campaign fighting for machines to be legally recognized as inventors around the world. Now, it looks as though his struggle may have been for nothing.…
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Looks like the bird site didn't need Musk's money to get the feature added, after all
Twitter's long-awaited edit button is being tested internally, and in the coming weeks will be available to Twitter Blue subscribers before a wider rollout, the social media company said today. …
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Not a great look for the state that just vowed to phase out gas-powered cars in favor of battery-powered ones
One week after announcing plans to phase out autos powered by gasoline, California energy authorities are facing a heat wave so severe residents are being asked not to charge their electric vehicles during "flex alerts" designed to reduce stress on the grid.…
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Latest versions of the KDE Plasma and LXQt desktops now available
Kubuntu and Lubuntu desktops have been upgraded but you won't automatically get the new versions. Here's how to get the optional lifts.…
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Just weeks after milestone permit to charge for robotaxi rides using autonomous-driving tech
General Motors autonomous unit Cruise has issued a Safety Recall report, pulling software that governed how its AVs behave when making an unprotected left turn after one of the vehicles was involved in a crash.…
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Apple-developed web engine to take advantage of Git’s distributed nature, GitHub’s large community
Apple-developed web rendering engine, WebKit, the basis of its Safari browser, is migrating to Git.…
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Affixes magnetically attached Bluetooth unit instead of soft keyboard after feedback
Lenovo has exhibited an updated version of its ThinkPad X1 Fold portable, a device that is a mash-up of a folding-screen tablet and a Windows laptop, with a sleeker, slimmer design sporting Intel's 12th-gen Core processors and Windows 11.…
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Subsea Cloud boasts 1MW of capacity for up to 90% lower costs compared to landlubber facilities
A company called Subsea Cloud is planning to have a commercially available undersea datacenter operating off the coast of the US before the end of 2022, with other deployments planned for the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea.…
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Buy a new phone or pay food and household energy bills? Shipments to crash in 2022
Smartphone shipments are forecast to shrink globally by 6.5 percent this year as many households feeling the pinch of inflation decide to prioritize paying for food, energy and other essentials over refreshing handsets.…
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Starting with Google Firebase and Apache Camel repos
Security researchers at Legit Security identified vulnerabilities in the GitHub automated workflows used by Google Firebase and Apache Camel that could have been abused to compromise those open-source projects through their GitHub CI/CD pipeline and insert malicious code.…
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Spoiler: They used hard-coded AWS credentials
Massive amounts of private data – including more than 300,000 biometric digital fingerprints used by five mobile banking apps – have been put at risk of theft due to hard-coded Amazon Web Services credentials, according to security researchers.…
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Could just be a coincidence ... let's keep going into space and see what happens
Analyses of blood taken before and after spaceflight have confirmed astronauts undergo genetic mutations that could make them more susceptible to developing cancer and heart disease.…
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You'll just have to learn to code instead – oh wait, computers can do that, too
By 2026 the call center industry could save up to $80 billion by replacing humans with AI chatbots, according to analysts at Gartner.…
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Is nothing sacred?
Scumbags are using a photo from the James Webb Space Telescope to smuggle Windows malware onto victims' computers – albeit in a roundabout way.…
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You're under app-vest, sunshine
Traffic cops in Surrey, England, have drawn criticism after revealing how they game Waze to spook drivers into slowing down while out on patrol.…
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Makes Nvidia tense with ban on Tensor tech that could cost it $400m this quarter alone
As part of ongoing efforts to restrict China and Russia accessing advanced American technology, the US government last week banned AMD and NVIDIA from selling some AI kit to China.…
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But keep your attorney on a 'short leash' against Tiversa, court warns
LabMD, the embattled and now defunct cancer-testing company, will get another chance at suing security firm Tiversa for defamation following an appeals court ruling. …
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DeFi, as in, defying belief
The FBI has urged people to be cautious and heavily research a DeFi – decentralized finance – provider before putting your money into it, after more than a billion dollars was stolen from these providers in three months.…
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Which should make you see red because using renewable energy is supposed to cut their costs
SaaS vendors plan to hike prices by between 15 and 20 percent in the next three years, and one of the justifications they’ll use is the cost of their environmental sustainability programs – despite expectations that those efforts would lower their costs.…
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As vCEO Raghu Raghuram tells us Big B won’t treat VMware like its other slash and burn acquisitions
VMware Explore VMware customers are waiting to see what changes Broadcom will bring to the virtualization giant, with many optimistic the impact will be positive.…
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Paradox Interactive has announced the Crusader Kings III: Friends & Foes event pack releases September 8 and they also mentioned some price rises.
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Recently developer Realmforge Studios and publisher Kalypso Media announced Dungeons 4, and so they put all the previous games into a Humble Bundle for you.
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Core Keeper, the delightful pixel-art mining sandbox adventure that you can play solo or online with friends has a new roadmap. It sounds pretty exciting too with a mini-update coming out soon.
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Today the Vulkan API specification 1.3.226 was released and it brings with it an exciting new extension with VK_EXT_mesh_shader.
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Recently it seems something changed over on the Epic Games Store and so third-party programs trying to login like the Heroic Games Launcher would fail. Thankfully a fix was found.
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Stunlock Studios have revealed quite a lot of their plans for V Rising, the popular open-world vampire survival game.
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Valve has revealed what the most popular games were on Steam Deck for August 2022, so here's the list.
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Editing with Micro is much easier than with other editors like Vim and Emacs. You can even use your regular Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+Z shortcuts in Micro.
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Fixed wireless and fiber ISPs get money as FCC continues cleanup of Pai program.
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Stealth win for AI-generated art inspires heated ethics debate on social media.
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Dealmaster also has gaming monitors, the MacBook Pro, and Google's Chromecast.
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If you've installed any of these extensions, manually remove them stat.
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Move to appease EU partners bars running MS apps on competitors' infrastructure.
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Some of the tech feels a bit gimmicky, but there's a lot to like about this one.
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The new boosters are expected to start going into arms around Labor Day.
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Australian judge decided whether court docs could be served by OneDrive link.
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Dell says it's reaching out to affected customers, retailers to replace the PCs.
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"Reviewers" seemed focused on getting free game keys for resale, not playing.
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The Velotric Discovery 1 isn't about looks or performance, but it's a fine e-bike.
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In Japan, 1,900 government procedures still require submission on floppy disk.
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PS5 refresh redeems combat, reignites drama—but is still chained to 2013 source.
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New version of XProtect is "as active as many commercial anti-malware products."
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A jeweler, a plastic surgeon, an OnlyFans Model got the coveted blue check.
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"The way the sensor is behaving does not line up with the physics of the situation."
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British chip designer unhappy with how one of its key customers is using lucrative blueprints
Arm is suing Qualcomm, one of its key customers, in a row over the latter's Nuvia custom CPU cores.…
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Doxing and hate-spreading websites deserve as much space on the internet as you or I, says CEO
On Wednesday content delivery network Cloudflare published a blog post explaining the circumstances under which abusive websites are eligible for service, just as a storm is brewing on that very topic.…
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Additional Japanese battery plant investments will add 40GWh of production capacity by 2026
Toyota says it plans to invest up to an additional $5.6 billion in electric vehicle (EV) battery production that it will split between facilities in the US and Japan. …
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Payment from Crypto.com was off by five zeroes because bank account number was mistakenly entered
An Australian woman has been sued after she received part of an erroneous refund from a cryptocurrency exchange – erroneous by five zeroes – that it failed to notice for seven months.…
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Original shows, games, the company's other apps, and more also being axed
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel has confirmed layoffs at the struggling social media biz, telling employees in a letter that 20 percent of them will lose their jobs, mostly from teams working on one of the variety of projects it also plans to ax.…
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Issues ranging from design to banner ads are justified criticisms of a button coming under heavy fire
The one-time director of user experience at Microsoft has added his voice to the ongoing chorus of Windows 11 users who are criticizing the design and usability of the latest operating system's Start menu.…
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We took our first official test drive and became a little infatuated
There are so many Debian derivatives out there that a few months ago, we did a roundup that compared some of the leading ones. We mentioned antiX and MX Linux, saying that we planned to come back and give MX a fuller review. The project just put out its second point-release of 2022, which seemed like a good time to do so.…
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Minister says it needs to copy Vietnam and China's 'first globalize, then localize' strategy
India's Ministry of State for Electronics & Information Technology released a report this week exploring how the subcontinent might increase electronics production by roughly 400 percent and exports by an ambitious 750 percent by 2026.…
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Deeply impressive that NASA engineers fixed telemetry transmit glitch on 1970s probe in the first place
NASA knows the "how" but not the why of a telemetry data routing snafu that caused "garbled" information about the 45-year-old Voyager 1 probe's position to be sent to mission controllers on the ground.…
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Set to take the controls next year as software giant executes tricky maneuver in the cloud
SAP has appointed Airbus's Dominik Asam as the CFO who will replace long-serving finance boss Luka Mucic at the German software giant.…
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Customers should be able to 'move freely' says Google cloud veep as AWS brands move 'unfair'
Microsoft's cloud competitors have reacted negatively to changes the company announced this week to licensing, claiming that they are anti-competitive and will deter customers from moving to other cloud providers.…
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The solution? Inventing another 'transformation programme' to transform previous transformation
HP is putting together a recovery plan to counter a sharp slowdown in its PC and printer businesses, including yet another transformation program.…
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Britain's National Data Guardian report also warns NHS needs to earn people’s trust, support for controversial data platform
As the NHS in England is set to launch a competition for a far-reaching patient data platform, a public consultation has said decisions about health data sharing should not be taken by politicians.…
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These memory controllers are aimed at AI-addicted cloud providers and hyperscalers
Astera Labs wants to make it simpler and cheaper for cloud and hyperscale customers to keep up with ever larger AI models, by allowing DRAM to be attached directly to a PCIe slot using its Compute Express Link (CXL) memory controllers.…
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Enough is Enough crew tells telecom CEO to 'pay up'
Left-wing firebrands behind the Enough is Enough campaign in the UK are throwing their weight behind the thousands of BT Group engineers and call center staff on the picket lines today in protest over pay.…
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A gentle primer on these chip giants' accelerators – and your essential guide to the conference so far
VMware Explore SmartNICs have long been the domain of hyperscale and cloud datacenters, but they remain relatively uncommon in enterprise environments due in large part to the lack of software compatibility. But with official support for AMD and Nvidia's data processing units (DPUs) now baked into VMware's popular hypervisor, that may not be the case for much longer.…
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Orbit Fab hopes to charge $20m for a hydrazine refill – and you thought fuel prices down here were bad!
Spacecraft running low on fuel could get a refill from an orbital station by the year 2025, according to a startup named Orbit Fab that reckons it can charge $20 million to top up your tank.…
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ScanBox installed after victims lured to fake Murdoch news sites with phishing emails
Researchers at security company Proofpoint and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) said on Tuesday they had identified a cyber espionage campaign that delivers the ScanBox exploitation framework through a malicious fake Australian news site.…
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Watt an interesting idea
California is ready to try out something that could help it save water and generate electricity at the same time: solar panels over irrigation canals.…
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Digital minister will drive change because, in theory, uploading info to government isn’t allowed
Japan’s digital minister Karo Tono has pledged to rip up laws that require floppy disks and CD-ROMs to be used when sending data to the nation’s government.…
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And throws a copy of Mudge's allegations to the SEC, too, just in case it hasn't read them yet
Elon Musk's lawyers issued a double whammy this week in the ongoing quest by the world's richest man to cancel his own proposed takeover of Twitter.…
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Will Newsom sign it? With a possible presidential bid looming, take a guess
California lawmakers have approved a major online safety bill to protect children – and critics worry the legislation will turn websites into identity checkpoints.…
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Will it be enough to prevent the next software supply-chain attack?
Google has created a bug bounty program that will reward those who find and report vulnerabilities in its open-source projects, thereby hopefully strengthening software supply-chain security.…
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Turkish crypto exchange founder who absconded with $2 billion last year caught, now faces 40,000 years of jail time.
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Arm accuses Qualcomm and Nuvia of illegally developing Arm processors following Nuvia takeover.
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A new Geekbench 5 benchmark shows very impressive scores for the Ryzen 9 7950X, especially as compared to its predecessor — but there's more to the story.
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Asus to bundle headsets, mice, webcams with advanced AM5 motherboards.
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Samsung's new Odyssey OLED G8 gaming monitor is packed with smart TV features that let you use it without a PC.
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Japanese Minister of Digital Affairs says it's time to move on from 40-year-old storage technology.
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The UK graphics IP firm outlines some of the tech specs of the Fantasy 1 and Fantasy 2 graphics cards being introduced by China’s Innosilicon.
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Ahead of the launch of AMD's Zen 4 CPU lineup, the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D has been reduced to $384.
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Maker and developer Leon, aka Leoneq at Reddit, is using a Raspberry Pi to power a handheld radio controller that runs RetroPie (or any other OS).
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Seven new Asus B650 and B650E motherboards have been revealed, ahead of release later this year.
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The LX3 can change from flat to 900R with a click of its remote. This 4K OLED TV can run at up to 120 Hz, and has a wide selection of gaming-friendly features like support for variable refresh rates and Game Mode presets.
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Want to sail the high seas? Love pixel artwork? Check out the upcoming game Arcane Waters which will let you do some pirating adventures alone or online with others too but it's mainly an online focused game.
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Neodash is a fresh Native Linux racing game that combines futuristic bright neon visuals with crazy-fast drifting.
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Okay so perhaps Last Call BBS being their actual final game was a sweet little lie from Zachtronics. Well, sort of, as The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection is technically not exactly a new game.
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Classics like Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale and more running on the Infinity Engine should live on forever thanks to open source reimplementations like GemRB.
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SokoChess is certainly an intriguing game blending together two very different types of gameplay, to create something that's a little peculiar but quite fun.
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Quite an important update has rolled out for the open-world survival game Valheim, with a bunch of changes related to the saving system to prevent some big problems.
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Learn how to change the lid closing behavior with Ubuntu and make it not go in suspend mode when the laptop lid is closed.
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A list of basic Linux networking commands that will help you troubleshoot network issues, monitor packets, connect devices, and much more.
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Sales of CPUs drop by 33.7% year-over-year in Q2 2022, JPR says.
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Best Buy is offering the HP Victus 15 for $549, knocking a whopping $250 off the price.
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According to new Linux patch notes for Meteor Lake enablement, the media engine on Meteor Lake processors will move off the integrated graphics chip into its own unit.
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The AeroCool Skribble case comes with a liquid chalk marker and a wiper, so you can change or erase designs. Other than this artsy feature, it looks like a pretty standard mid-tower case with an RGB fan included.
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TSMC says a shortage of inexpensive "commodity chips" is disrupting trillion dollar industries. Even ASML currently suffers from insufficient chip supply of these chips.
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Maker Riley with Artillect is using a Raspberry Pi to convert a vintage electronic typewriter into a functional Linux terminal.
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Says company’s support reps incentivized to give customers false excuses to get them off the phone faster.
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We have some excellent discounts on some of Razer's most popular PC peripherals, including a Razer Power Up Gaming bundle deal for just $40.
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Patch notes for CPU-Z update 2.02 show hidden support for two new non-X variants of AMD's Ryzen 9 7000 series CPUs, the Ryzen 9 7900 and 7950, hinting at power efficient alternatives to the halo X-series parts.
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The FBI has issued a Public Service Announcement concerning increased cybercriminal activity surrounding the DeFi (Decentralized Finance) landscape, which has already led to the siphoning of billions of investors' dollars.
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TSMC confirms plans to start making chips using its N3 production node ‘soon,’ with Apple taking the lion's share of initial wafers.
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The ‘K’ CPUs will launch on Sept 28, with pre-orders opening up over the following fortnight, and availability starting from Oct 20. Sadly, it looks like reviews won’t be published until the general availability date.
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Logitech is releasing a new gaming handheld in 2022, that is believed to be running Android as opposed to Windows or Linux.
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The Cooler Master CH331 is a plug and play surround sound headset for beginner gamers and streamers.
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The P3 Plus is a good first effort at a faster budget SSD with Crucial’s new QLC.
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Cooler Master’s beginner level gaming mouse is light in your hand and on your wallet.
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G.Skill launches Trident Z5 Neo and Flare X5 memory kits for AMD's Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 processors.
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AMD launched its highly-anticipated Ryzen 7000 series.
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AMD CEO Lisa Su takes to the stage to announce the company's new 5nm Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 processors.
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Officials are still determining the exact cause of death, which occurred August 28.
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Logitech and Tencent have announced plans to make a streaming-focused portable.
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Subscribers got over 200 Xbox 360 games; previously claimed titles will still work.
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Someday, wood furniture could be shipped flat and then dried to form a final shape.
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Two of the simplest forms of evasion are surprisingly effective against EDRs.
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How long that takes to play out is unclear.
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Tesla ordered to scrap shirt ban and notify workers that it violated US labor law.
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Researchers listed reasons why Twitter fails to moderate self-harm content.
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Sensor for already dry clothes relied on smartphone app, servers to work.
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Results imply Earth may be more sensitive to carbon dioxide than previously known.
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Computer eyes in the skies make real estate tax evasion in France much harder.
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The FCC left 30 MHz of bandwidth for C-V2X applications.
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February Morning has become a central player in underground fight against the Kremlin.
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Android 13 is a very small update, but it's also the second one this year.
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Company promises a big 29% jump in single-core CPU performance from Ryzen 5000.
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And so is vSphere for Arm: CEO tells Reg he’s ‘beating up’ the exec responsible for the port
VMware Explore VMware is working to bring its flagship virtualization stack to all major processor architectures, CEO Raghu Raghuram said at his company’s Explore conference in San Francisco today.…
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Fears of human-rights abuses overshadow Project Nimbus
Ariel Koren, a Jewish Googler, claims the internet giant pressured her into resigning in retaliation for her speaking out about Google and Amazon's $1.2 billion cloud contract with Israel's government and military.…
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Snafu disrupts VMs as cloud giant offers workarounds
Microsoft Azure customers running Canonical's Ubuntu 18.04 (aka Bionic Beaver) in the cloud have seen their applications fail after a flawed security update to systemd broke DNS queries.…
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Automaker accused of hiding malfunctioning tech from drivers
A lawsuit filed against Tesla this month accuses the automaker of covering up an alleged malfunction that makes vehicles stop for nonexistent objects, sometimes in the middle of traffic, while in Autopilot mode.…
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Reworked use of object storage changes footing with competitors but will need to convince devs
Teradata has launched analytics and data lake platforms as it strives to steal the march on so-call cloud-native enterprise data warehouse companies.…
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HCI platform now supports vSphere 8, vSAN 8, and VCF 4.5
VMware Explore Dell has announced its latest kit co-developed with VMware, including updated VxRail HCI systems with support for network offloading to DPUs, support for VMware's Tanzu Kubernetes Grid in its Apex subscription platform, and a turnkey platform for operating AI workloads.…
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Production dips almost 7% between January and July. COVID-19 disruption also blamed
Semiconductor shortages might have peaked in some sectors but the automotive industry is still reaching to secure as many chips as it can, with Toyota outlining the continued ramifications.…
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Re-composes automation and management tools as ‘Aria’, reduces cloud hardware requirements, tries to reinvent security ... again
VMware Explore VMware has delivered on its promise to brings its flagship vSphere compute virtualization suite to SmartNICs that embed a small computer on a network interface controller and run network-centric workloads there to free servers’ CPUs from scutwork.…
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City-state can’t beat them, so plans to regulate them, starting with consumer suitability tests
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said on Monday it is taking measures to reduce the harms caused by cryptocurrency, including conducting "customer suitability tests" as part of its ongoing slow-motion crackdown on the alternative tender.…
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Ah, nothing like a classic Trojan horse
Watch out: someone is spreading cryptocurrency-mining malware disguised as legitimate-looking applications, such as Google Translate, on free software download sites and through Google searches.…
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Investigating the world of Chinese Linux
Ubuntu's special distro for the Chinese market has a widening edge over the company's more conventional flavors.…
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Your past projects may be a pain, but can they rain fiery death from above?
Opinion The International Space Station is showing its age. It's older than a third of the population, over two and a half billion people who have never known a time without humans in orbit.…
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You might find copying data over a network goes at least a little quicker
Microsoft this month fixed what one of its staffers called an "idiosyncrasy" in the end-to-end SMB compression functionality it began rolling out last year for Windows Server 2022 and Windows 11.…
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Aerial photo scanning tool to be expanded to catch out other unreported home improvements
AI software has detected more than 20,000 secret private swimming pools in aerial photography, helping French tax officials bag about €10 million (£ 8.6 million) in extra property levies.…
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Indian residents will be able to buy their groceries through the chat app – for as long as the government is happy with the idea
Meta's messaging service WhatsApp will launch its first end to end e-commerce service in India, through an alliance with giant conglomerate Reliance Industries’ digital business and mobile telephony subsidiary, Jio Platforms.…
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Prices start at $300, you'll also need a new motherboard, RAM
AMD has refreshed its desktop processors for the first time in nearly two years, revealing Ryzen 7000-series processors that boast clock speeds that can reach 5.7GHz and performance up to 29 percent greater than their predecessors.…
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Developers say this is not the privacy protection it's made out to be
Google in November will prohibit Android VPN apps in its Play store from interfering with or blocking advertising, a change that may pose problems for some privacy applications.…
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Judges just didn't buy Viasat's in-orbit prang fears
Judges in the US have upheld the FCC's decision to allow SpaceX Starlink satellites to fly at a lower altitude.…
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Paradox has today confirmed that Victoria 3 will be releasing on October 25, plus it's available for pre-order with a new trailer too.
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There it is, the big one! Through the Deck Verified system we now have 5,000+ games listed as either Verified or Playable for the Steam Deck.
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AMD has revealed their next-generation Zen 4 processors with the Ryzen 7000 series that will be launching September 27.
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Half-Life 2: VR Mod is on the way and will hit official Beta on Steam on September 16th, so I guess I'll be playing it all over again then.
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Kena: Bridge of Spirits is a gorgeous looking story-driven, action adventure that was exclusive to the Epic Store but the time is up and it's coming to Steam now. It's also been Steam Deck Verified ahead of release.
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Proton Experimental for Steam Deck and Linux desktop from Valve recently had two small updates. Although small, they do have some major fixes.
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Slightly later than they usually put up the releases, the Wine team released Wine 7.16 on August 28th bring new features and bug fixes for the Windows translation layer.
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Open source library management software are the best! Let's take a look at some of them here.
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The Sony PlayStation 5 CFI-1202A (with ODD) is 300g lighter, and the PlayStation 5 CFI-1202B (digital) is 200g lighter. Sony documentation confirms the changes, but no details about what was cut.
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As chiplets are increasingly seen as the future of computation, Lightmatter aims to reduce power consumption and latency by interconnecting chips through light rather than wires.
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Noctua has released the first thermal paste application recommendation we've seen to date for AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7000 processors.
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Team Green is allegedly dithering over 7,680 or 7,168 CUDA cores, 12 or 10GB of VRAM, and a 285W or 250W TGP before finalizing the GeForce RTX 4070 specifications.
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Intel is adding a bunch of new improvements to an upcoming Linux driver update coming in October, and one of them is DP MSC with DSC support.
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Intel, GlobalFoundries, Samsung Foundry, TI, and TSMC are building new fabs in the U.S. Here's everything we know about the upcoming facilities.
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"One New Yorker paralyzed by polio is already too many," state health commissioner says.
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The whistleblower complaint might help Twitter's case instead, though.
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Legal firms and shell companies Apple has used in the past were involved.
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New models are about 13 percent lighter than 2020's hefty launch-era consoles.
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"I am very proud of this launch team."
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Agency says data shows users visits to clinics and homeless shelters.
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Dish interference claim rejected; Viasat environmental protest "too speculative."
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Engineers want to use robots as a sort of distributed 3D printer.
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A settlement agreement drafted in the next 60 days will reveal the cost to Meta.
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Recent leaks conflict with earlier Bloomberg reports on dimensions
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A master class in adapting a beloved graphic novel series.
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Honda and LG Energy Solution have formed a joint venture to make US batteries.
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Their health risk together is worse than either alone.
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13-game compilation benefits from cool tweaks, rollback netcode.
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"We are prepared for just about anything."
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Funnily enough, most of those hit were aged over 40, it is claimed
Exclusive After announcing in January it was selling its Watson Health group to investment firm Francisco Partners, IBM assured staff left behind from the sale that they would be redeployed within Big Blue.…
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Yes, we're totally doing this as a favor for partners and not because we were being sued in Europe
Microsoft has announced a major overhaul to its Windows licensing regimes that make it rather easier to use its operating system in the cloud – without mentioning the real reason for the change is to get the European Union off its back.…
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Grab and deploy this backend update if you offer even repo read access
A critical command-injection vulnerability in multiple API endpoints of Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center could allow an unauthorized attacker to remotely execute malware, and view, change, and even delete data stored in repositories.…
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Claims it has 'the world’s largest' OLED
LG Electronics released a TV it is claiming is “the world’s largest” OLED.…
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Interconnect tech promises 96TB/s die-to-die communications
Hot Chips As chipmakers look to scale compute to ever-greater heights, they’re increasingly turning to waferscale compute architectures to circumvent bandwidth and latency bottlenecks.…
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A Reg reader comes to appreciate the value of paper
Who, Me? In this modern era when massive amounts of storage can be had for pennies on the gigabyte, it's easy to forget that it was not always thus. Once upon a time, keeping business data safe was a cost- and labor-intensive process.…
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Zuckerberg and Sandberg won't have to testify – worth much more than cash for Meta
Meta's Platforms has reached an agreement to settle the consumer lawsuits brought as a result of Cambridge Analytica's unauthorized harvesting of user data – an outcome that means Facebook execs won't be required to testify in court.…
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Something to thank Putin for … unless you’re the admin trying to implement buggy and fast-changing rules while avoiding Bork
Germany has ordered overnight shutdowns for non-essential digital signage, to save its reserves of natural gas for more important purposes.…
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PLUS: Trustwave's Singapore owners selling?; Pakistan's suspiciously political internet brownout; Indonesian data leaks; and more!
Asia In Brief Senior execs at India's big IT outsourcers are debating whether it is appropriate for their staff to take on additional paid work outside the company.…
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New rumors claim that the next-generation Ryzen 9 7950X 16-core Zen 4 processor can boost up to 5.85 GHz.
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This Raspberry Pi project generates a custom QR code that it can email to users to gain access to a gate or door.
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The Forza 85 is an extremely quiet air cooler that pairs well with Alder Lake CPUs, provided there are reasonable power limits in place.
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A little preventative action can keep your PC running cool and smooth.
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Plus: Changing call center workers' voices, why we need to do more to get women in ML, and more
In brief A record label this week dropped an AI rapper after the biz was slammed for profiting from the virtual artist, said to be modeled on Black stereotypes.…
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Openbox is a lightweight, configurable, stacking window manager. Here are a few distros that provide Openbox preconfigured.
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Twitter user Ray Redacted unmasks a mysterious 30TB portable SSD that sells for $39 at Walmart.
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The German publication PC Games Hardware tests Intel's Arc A380 graphics card across 50 titles between 1999 and 2022.
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Pine64’s latest RISC-V soldering iron comes in at a low price point, but with features commonly found on more expensive irons.
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Dealmaster also has HyperX gaming headsets, the Google Chromecast, and the Xbox Series S.
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Not the top performer, but the Spectre has other wins, like its 3:2 screen.
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Why choose one when you can use them all?
Hot Chips Over the past two years, AMD has steadily expanded its computing portfolio. This included the addition of FPGAs and smartNICs through the acquisition of Xilinx in 2020 and Pensando earlier this year.…
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Also, Charming Kittens from Iran scrape email inboxes, France could fine Google again, and more
In brief A survey of cybersecurity decision makers found 77 percent think the world is now in a perpetual state of cyberwarfare.…
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Online shops sharing data about you with others qualifies as a sale in AG's book – and that means rules apply
Sephora has agreed to cough up $1.2 million to settle claims it broke California's privacy law.…
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Intel has detailed the inner workings of XeSS and provided performance and gaming examples of the technology.
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The new UltraGear display is based on the same panel as the flexible Corsair Xeneon Flex 45WQHD240 OLED, but LG has decided to market its ‘45GR95QE’ in a fixed 800R configuration.
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GeForce RTX Series laptops are lightweight, thin and portable with battery extending tech; they deliver outstanding performance for STEM apps and creative software that’s many times faster than an average laptop, and prices start at just $799
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Zhaoxin's datacenter 7nm CPUs with 12 and 16 cores tested in Geekbench.
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Intel's Core i7-13700, Core i5-13500, and Core i5-13400 Raptor Lake processors break cover.
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While Intel's top-of-the-line Arc A770 is still missing from the wider world - alongside the rest of the Arc Alchemist lineup - Intel is flexing its marketing muscles by delivering its best-performing card to renowned case modders.
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There will be “more Steam Decks, more SteamOS," says Valve. Gamers can look forward to a “multi-generational product line.”
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Intel's 65W Raptor Lake has extreme turbo clocks, 32 threads.
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Y-Cruncher Author Alexander Yee had to create all his Zen 4 optimizations of AVX-512 for Y-Cruncher by scratch. Nonetheless, he prevailed with Zen 4 support coming in next patch.
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Viotek’s GNV32DBE delivers high contrast and a large color gamut with its GNV32DBE. A 32-inch curved VA screen features 165 Hz, Adaptive-Sync and HDR for less than $300.
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2FA provider Authy, password manager LastPass, and DoorDash all experienced breaches.
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Recyclable polymer resin could also be used for car taillights, diapers, kitchen sinks.
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Wendy's has already pulled the suspect lettuce from its burgers and sandwiches.
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But the "30TB" disk does at least try to fool users in clever ways.
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With vaccines widely available, Moderna wants to be paid for its earlier work.
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The headset is likely Project Cambria, and it will debut at Connect.
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Intel's 12th-gen CPUs make for a mixed upgrade to one of the best laptops.
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LG claims a camera and AI help ensure good ergonomics.
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Apple's more amenable to self-repairs, but complex processes and designs are limiting.
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"For the uncrewed demo, the goal is to have a safe landing."
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Audi is one of two VW Group brands that will enter F1 when the new rules come in.
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"So it's really quite a difficult technical challenge."
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A bit of undigested white mulberry leaf was found in the woman's stomach.
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On the bright side, top devs are getting hardware security keys
The Python Package Index, better known among developers as PyPI, has issued a warning about a phishing attack targeting developers who use the service.…
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If it ever gets built, that is
US memory vendor Micron is seeking tax incentives to build a new semiconductor fab outside Austin, Texas, according to documents filed with the state.…
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This same tech could someday help us discover strange, new – and habitable – worlds
NASA is reporting another James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first as the orbital observatory has found clear evidence for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet.…
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Attack's tentacles spread wider
DoorDash has confirmed that "a small percentage" of its customers' data and employees' information, including names, email and delivery addresses, phone numbers, and order and partial credit card details, were revealed as part of a broad phishing campaign dubbed Oktapus.…
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The memorial 'Enterprise Flight' later this year will include ashes from other Star Trek alum too
Late actress Nichelle Nichols, who for 25 years portrayed the USS Enterprise's communications officer Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, is set to be memorialized among the stars later this year.…
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Chip giant aims to adapt existing processor architectures to close off vulnerabilities in memory access
Hot Chips Arm used the Hot Chips conference to talk about its experimental Morello Program and how it implements the CHERI architecture, designed to address some of the memory access vulnerabilities underpinning attacks on computer systems.…
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Companies claim that 'no modifications are required to the cellphone everyone has in their pocket today'
T-Mobile and SpaceX have announced plans to use satellites in low Earth orbit to provide cellphone coverage in remote locations across the US and perhaps globally using existing devices.…
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Early reports Amazon planned to announce a buy offer for the game studio make share price zigzag
Electronic Arts stock has been volatile this morning on rumors that Amazon was preparing to put in an offer to buy the company that were quickly deemed questionable.…
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Also: Smiling, eye tracking, and general 'social presence' baked into Project Cambria
Facebook limited the visibility of the New York Post's story about Hunter Biden's laptop on the social media platform while it was being fact-checked after receiving warnings of disinformation campaigns from the FBI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the Joe Rogan Experience on Thursday.…
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Wouldn't it be nice to have the features you want, rather than accept whatever's bundled by suppliers
Systems Approach Edge routers have been an essential part of the internet for decades, connecting access networks – enterprise LANs, mobile and broadband networks – to the global backbone.…
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The diagnosis? Ignorance is bliss, but educating users is hell
On Call If it's Friday – and we have no reason to believe it is not – then it must be time for another instalment of On-Call, The Register's weekly tale of techies who rise above the trivial troubles that colleagues demand be addressed with undue haste.…
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And not the fake ones that just try to change their minds
Google search results and Maps will clearly label healthcare clinics that provide abortion services, reducing the chances that women in crisis will be misdirected to "clinics" that don't in fact offer healthcare.…
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Navigation tool still on the road ... for now
Google is shutting down its Waze carpooling service apparently due to poor demand from workers commuting into the office – although road traffic has bounced back to levels from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. …
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This, this is what we mean by a sophisticated cyberattack
Criminals behind the cyberattack attempts on Twilio and Cloudflare earlier this month had cast a much wider net in their phishing expedition, targeting as many as 135 organizations — primarily IT, software development and cloud services providers based in the US.…
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Ready for the weekend? Humble Bundle just put up the Fantastic Journeys: Middle-earth and Beyond bundle and it's actually pretty darn good.
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Lutris, the all encompassing game manager for installing games from various stores and services (both Native and with Wine / Proton) has a new version out. Plus, the Flatpak is finally ready, making it real easy to run on Steam Deck.
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A small but interesting Steam Deck update available in Beta and Preview, which you can try out right now. Here's what's new.
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Diluvian Winds continues looking interesting. Alambik Studio and Goblinz Publishing are working to bring out a 2D management and building game where you're trying to fight against the rising waters that's left you exiled.
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Overboss looks like a fun idea. Coming from the same team that gave us Legend of Keepers, it has you emerge from the underworld to take over the overworld.
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The GOG Sale continues on and their next free giveaway has been revealed as the cyberpunk action RPG named Dex.
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Valve has just released a rather fancy Steam Deck Booklet to introduce Valve, Steam and the Steam Deck to the new markets across Asia they're about to expand into and it gives some fun details.
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Move over, GitLab, this purge begins in October
Heroku, Saleforce's platform-as-a-service biz, on Thursday said it will discontinue its free container and database offerings, and will purge inactive accounts because of ongoing abuse.…
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Air board votes unanimously to approve wind down of gas guzzlers
There's a popular adage that "as California goes, so goes the nation."…
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Your passwords are still safe, biz says
Internal source code and documents have been stolen from LastPass by a cyber-thief.…
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Remembering Aaron Swartz
Fourteen years after the late Aaron Swartz published his Guerilla Open Access Manifesto calling for the liberation of publicly funded scientific literature, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has called for taxpayer-funded research to be made available to the public at no cost.…
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A small but functional quantum system accelerating science, not search
Chinese search giant Baidu has unveiled its first quantum computing hardware and software capabilities during the Quantum Create developer conference in Beijing this week.…
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Says it's already used Wujian 600 to pull up its own SoC
China's Alibaba has released a development platform to help engineers building high-performance Systems-on-Chip (SoC) silicon based on the RISC-V open architecture, which is claimed to also include an optimized software stack to help speed product rollout.…
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The 'widespread' campaign hunts for multimillion-dollar transactions
A business email compromise scheme targeting CEOs and CFOs using Microsoft Office 365 combines phishing with a man-in-the-middle attack to bypass multi-factor authentication.…
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Researchers ran a current through vanadium dioxide and were never forgiven
Researchers in Switzerland have discovered a compound that can "remember" its previous phase transition states, offering potential applications in computer memory and information processing.…
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Big changes are afoot in a forthcoming version, but they're not fully visible yet
A leading Chinese Linux vendor is polishing what may be its last Debian-based release, and preparing for the move to becoming a fully independent distro with its own new package format, Linglong.…
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It turns out online chicanery aiming to destabilize foreign nations is a two-way street
Well known for an abundance of anti-western troll accounts and propaganda, Twitter and Meta are reporting that they've taken down nearly 200 accounts that, for the past five years, have been amplifying pro-Western messages in the Middle East and Central Asia.…
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But graphics giant foresees revenues falling even further in the next quarter as gamer GPU sales drop
Graphics giant Nvidia plans to unveil the architecture for its next-generation consumer GPU, Lovelace, at its GTC conference in September, CEO Jensen Huang has said.…
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Get the popcorn out for September 13
Former head of security at Twitter and whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko is scheduled to appear before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on September 13 to discuss allegations that his former employer made serious failures in protecting user data.…
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Customers 'more measured', and this will continue, says CRM giant, but Snowflake lifts forecasts
Salesforce said last night it was seeing sales cycles getting stretched and was taking a "very deliberate" approach on hiring and described caution from buyers after it missed analysts' expectations for revenue growth in the coming months.…
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Tension between anonymity and identity in web3 is being tested as firms seek a way to control rampant fraud
Web3, blockchain, and decentralized finance (DeFi) technologies, with their famously libertarian users, seem like the last places you'd expect to see a credit-scoring system. But money talks, even in a DeFi world.…
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PC component manufacturers won't get priority as area faces fires and heatwaves
Officials from the manufacturing hub of Chongqing notified factories on Wednesday that mandated power cuts in the municipality were extended until further notice, affecting both PC and Apple suppliers.…
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I am the one who NOCs
The folks tasked with defending the Black Hat conference network see a lot of weird, sometimes hostile activity, and this year it included malware linked to Kim Jong-un's agents.…
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Plans afoot to replace Oracle EBS/AIX system used by 1.8 million staff dating from 2008
The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is in the market for a company to manage HR and a new electronic staff records system as part of a procurement worth up to £1.7 billion ($2 billion).…
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Mobilises the Pi nicely but also frustrates in a few ways
Desktop Tourism The Raspberry Pi is rightly celebrated as a very clever feat of design. But I've always found Pi-based machines hard to work with because connecting a Pi to the peripherals needed to make it useful creates a tangle of wires.…
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India wants low-end Chinese smartphones out – and its efforts may be working
Chinese gadget giant Xiaomi has warned in its April-June 2022 earnings report that its troubles in India – related to allegations of improperly moving funds offshore – could noticeably affect business.…
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Frozen firm has yet to return all funds to netizens
More than 30 employees at the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange Voyager will receive $1.6 million in bonus pay as the company scrambles to return customers' funds frozen on its platform. …
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For now, Microsoft has no plans to increase Xbox Series X|S prices.
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Despite mediocre results, Samsung plans to continue using AMD's RDNA architectures for own iGPUs.
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The yet to be officially announced GPD Win 4 is expected to come with the muscular AMD Ryzen 7 6800U, upgraded hall effect thumbsticks, a new physical slider keyboard, and more.
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A blend of classic Apple and modern Raspberry Pi lies at the heart of this DIY build from maker Dave Luna.
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As AMD is ramping up production of its next-generation CPUs and GPUs, it is set to become the second largest client of TSMC's N5 node.
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An AMD Ryzen 7 7700X Engineering Sample has been benchmarked in an unverified leak.
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A upcoming Linux kernel update is adding a new CPU core error detection logger, to track and record faulty CPUs in Linux-based systems.
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Maker Anil, aka one_free_man_, has created an open-source portable handheld that runs DietPi and works as a music player.
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A partnership between OKdo and Radxa means Rock boards should be easier to source.
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Corsair reveals brand new ultrawide monitor that can bend from a flat display into a curved display.
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Sony increases PS5 price everywhere except for the U.S. due to global economic environment.
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We put the WD Black SN850X through the wringer to see if it lives up to the company's performance claims.
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Macro weakness and seasonality drive Nvidia's revenue and profits down, but the company still earns billions.
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Policy will go into effect in 2026, apply to everything that gets federal money.
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“Every time we looked at one of the inks, we found something that gave me pause.”
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Already regarded among the most advanced, the attacks were also done at a massive scale.
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The quiet rollout of Google's secretive OS continues, but don't expect any changes.
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In 2021, it was nearly impossible to buy a GPU for a decent price. Not anymore.
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One was an "attempted swatting." The other was a "false report of a crime."
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They're totally cool with you giving their emails out to spammy companies.
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In the face of federal inaction, the Golden State acts.
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Tech group has other ideas to gain foothold in $4 trillion health care market.
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United States escapes the price hike, which ranges between 3-13% around the world.
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An option for power workers seeking deeper contrast without Mini LED or OLED prices.
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There's a gimmick or two, but it's also one of the highest-specced AIOs around.
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New iPhones and Watches: you bet. New Macs and iPads? Probably not.
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"I still don't know to this day if my boss, Charlie, was in on the whole deal."
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The celebrity doctor played an early role in the push for an ineffective drug.
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The Dolmen of Guadalperal dates back to between 2000 and 3000 BCE.
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SD GUNDAM BATTLE ALLIANCE is a brand new release from ARTDINK and Bandai Namco Entertainment. The good news is that it works out of the box at release on Steam Deck and Linux desktop.
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CodeWeavers, the company that works on Proton with Valve and supports Wine development, has announced the released of CrossOver 22.0.0.
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One Lonely Outpost is an upcoming sci-fi colonization life and farming sim that was crowdfunded on Kickstarter. It was due this year but it's now delayed but it seems progress is good.
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Valve are now testing a new version of the Steam app for Android and iOS, which comes with a much more modern design and a QR code login system too.
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Spider-Man Remastered is an absolutely awesome game and it's great on both Steam Deck and Linux desktop! A new patch is out with plenty of fixes.
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This is the public once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month. Also a good reminder of our stats system for people who don't know about it.
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I had the pleasure of speaking to Brodie Robertson recently on the subject of Linux Gaming, Steam Deck and all sorts of things for you to sit back and chill with.
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Wondering how to compare files in Linux? You can use these command line and GUI utilities to compare files and folders.
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Nemo is a good file manager with plenty of features. You can further enhance your experience by using these extensions, tweaks and tips.
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Here's what you need to know about the release and update cycle of Linux Mint.
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Chipzilla's story Arc continues
Hot Chips Intel says its datacenter-focused Flex-series GPUs, codenamed Arctic Sound, are finally ready, and computer makers are expected to begin shipping systems over the next few months.…
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Just more IoT conscripts for the botnet armies
Tens of thousands of internet-facing IP cameras made by China-based Hikvision remain unpatched and exploitable despite a fix being issued for a critical security bug nearly a year ago.…
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PM says shuttered plants can re-open, fresh reactors will be built, old ones are getting their lives extended
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said today his country would begin not only restarting nuclear plants sitting idle since the Fukushima affair, but will begin building reactors as well.…
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Just how bad does existing AI hardware have to be to start from scratch?
To quench the thirst for ever larger AI and machine learning models, Tesla has revealed a wealth of details at Hot Chips 34 on their fully custom supercomputing architecture called Dojo.…
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Well, you can't be attacked if your PC won't boot
VMware has admitted an update on some versions of its Carbon Black endpoint solution is responsible for BSODs and boot loops on Windows machines after multiple organizations were affected by the problem.…
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Different core counts, different cache sizes, and various cores possible in mix and match design, it says
Hot Chips Intel has given more detail on how its upcoming Meteor Lake processors will be made from multiple chiplets, enabling it to mix and match to deliver different capabilities, and easing the introduction of its successor, Arrow Lake – which follows the same construction.…
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'Limited subset' of users have emails, usernames, and hashed passwords stolen from the streaming site
Users of popular streaming and media organizing service Plex are waking up to an unpleasant email this morning saying, in the words of a Reg reader, "Plex have been hacked and their main site is down as we all rush to change passwords."…
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Enterprise agreements can increase pricing, marring an overall positive assessment from the analyst
ServiceNow customers struggle with its pricing policy, feeling they are being nudged into higher price brackets and failing to benefit from supposed discount packages, according to Gartner.…
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Artemis 1 is ready to light its candle
NASA's most powerful rocket, the Space Launch System, just passed its flight readiness review, bringing it one step closer to meeting a target launch date of August 29. …
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Tiny electromechanical units bounce traffic down different fibers
Google has scaled its network capacity from over one petabit per second to beyond six petabits per second since 2015, and some of that growth has come from switches that bounce optical signals off an array of mirrors to redirect traffic.…
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Tiny electromechanical units bounce traffic down different fibers
Google has scaled its network capacity from over one petabit per second to beyond six petabits per second since 2015, and some of that growth has come from switches that bounce optical signals off an array of mirrors to redirect traffic.…
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Utility says there's no reason facilities should be using drinking water, but also wastes a lot itself
Thames Water has started looking at the amount of water used by datacenters in the area it serves around London as parts of the UK are hit by drought.…
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Don't ask us how this is decided, it probably involved a lot of Perl
Once again, Python is at the top of the IEEE's annual survey of popular programming languages – seemingly decided by a grab bag of metrics – while SQL appears to be a crucial skill.…
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Sometimes you just want something dead simple that can maybe handle bold, italics, and a hyperlink or two
FOSS Fest PanWriter isn't all that small, but it's simple, clean, and does the bare minimum over a plain text editor.…
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Smile! You're on Candid Doorbell – and the joke's on us all
Column It's hard to understand why anyone expressed surprise when Amazon's VP of public policy, Brian Huseman, recently admitted sharing data with police.…
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Cost control measures seem to hit CFO too – he's re-used quotes about cuts
Concerns over rising labor costs and the subsequent impacts on their profits have led Indian outsourcer Infosys to cut Q1FY23 variable bonuses to an organizational average of 70 percent of theoretical maximum.…
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Kim Jong-un has entered the chat
Lloyd's of London insurance policies will stop covering losses from certain nation-state cyberattacks and those that happen during wars, beginning in seven months time.…
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Cryptography prof tells Microsoft to get forked
Earlier this month, the US Treasury Department sanctioned cryptocurrency mixing service Tornado Cash, claiming it provided money laundering for entities deemed national threats to America.…
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Users may get around $0.53 each, Facebook would lose about eight hours of annual profit
Meta has offered to pay $37.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit, which claimed its social media platform Facebook illegally harvested location data even when users explicitly denied consent.…
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That wasn't actually me on a Zoom call, it was a malicious AI clone built from TV interviews, claims PR
A Binance PR exec says crooks created a deep-fake "AI hologram" of him to scam cryptocurrency projects via Zoom video calls.…
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Loose access to production systems, out of date software, and more claimed
Twitter's former security chief Peiter "Mudge" Zatko accused the company and its board of directors of violating financial rules, of fraud, and of grossly neglecting its security obligations in a complaint to the US Securities & Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the US Justice Department last month.…
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Valve has confirmed two tasty bits of info today for those waiting on getting a Steam Deck, and for those curious about how things are currently going.
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Another reasonably good pick here from Humble Bundle with the Career Break Bundle. Here's what's in it and what to expect on Linux desktop and Steam Deck.
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Stop me if you've heard this before, but I've discovered another game that takes elements from Vampire Survivors and makes it nicely unique again. Enter the world of Boneraiser Minions.
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Waves and Waves 2: Notorious are two rather good twin-stick shooters and sadly, the developer died after a battle with Cancer and so now both games are free to keep for everyone.
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It has finally happened. Cemu, the Wii U emulator has a big new 2.0 release and it is now officially open source and available for Linux too.
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Radio General - Water Rats is the first paid expansion for the positively rated unique strategy game, where you call the orders over your microphone.
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PQube, a games publisher that has over 50 games on Steam, has been accused by one developer of "predatory practices".
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Dealmaster also has the Pixel 6a, Xbox gift cards, and Samsung microSD cards.
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The big catch is that it has to be at roughly the boiling point of water to work.
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Intruders access personal information for the majority of its 30 million users.
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New iPhones and Apple Watches reportedly on tap, while iPads and Macs will wait.
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A federal court will begin reviewing the case by the end of this month.
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Google's hardware division is still shockingly small, but it's making progress.
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Lead dev on Obsidian's first game since Microsoft acquisition: "We can do this now."
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Samsung claims 55 percent gain in random read/write performance over the 980 PRO.
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It would also force businesses to change how the handle data.
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The Sense 2 introduces passive AFib detection while you sleep.
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Meta-analysis finds the gap between infection and symptoms has gradually shortened.
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Leaked documents say we could expect Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card this month.
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If genuine and not placeholders, the Core i9-13900K, i7-13700K, and i5-13600K Canadian prices would translate to US prices of $725, $510, and $355, respectively.
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New DeskPi carrier board holds six Raspberry Pi CM4s in a Mini-ITX case.
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Intel's Data Center GPU Flex target AI, cloud gaming, video, and VDI applications.
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Pakistan will now tax graphics cards in accordance with their onboard memory capacity.
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These new M.2 2280 form factor NVMe SSDs will be available in October, starting from $179 for the 1TB model, sans-heatsink. Those wishing for a 4TB model will have to wait until 2023.
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The HyperX Armada 25 and Armada 27 start at $449.
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T-Mobile fulfilled its promise of fast speeds and attractive pricing, but the service died after two weeks.
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Twi_Kingyo has created an Ethernet adapter using a Raspberry Pi Pico capable of receiving 10BASE-T input via Ethernet.
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Mingda’s Magician Max is a large format printer designed with beginners in mind.
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We recommend the best SSDs for every need and budget based on our extensive lab tests.
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Using Grub Customizer, add a custom background to your Grub boot menu.
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apt update or apt upgrade? Do not both of them update your system? What's the difference between the two similar commands?
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Blackbox is a new project in development that focuses on giving you a good-looking terminal emulator for your beautiful Linux setup.
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Investigating today what is AWS Relational Database Service with two readable standbys
Considering your current read/write server is in Availability Zone AZ1, this is basically postgres 14 with synchronous_standby_names = ANY 1 (az2, az3) and synchronous_commit = on.
In regards to safety of data, it looks similar to the raft algorithm used by etcd with three members as a write is only ack’ed if it has been fsynced by two servers, the difference is that raft has a leader election, whereas in PostgreSQL the leader is set at startup and you have to build yourself the election mechanism.
There is no special cloud magic here, it is just database good practices paid by the minute.
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Also: Homeworld 3, Return to Monkey Island, and a car that connects to Pokemon games.
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Ohio judge says room scans could form a slippery slope to more illegal searches.
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Also: The PlayStation VR2 gets a release window at long last.
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Widening gap between supported and unsupported hardware makes things tricky.
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Twitter’s former security chief alleges execs hid security risks from regulators.
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Co-creator of core Unix utility, now 80, just needs to run a few more tests.
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"NASA might grow more hostile against China in the space domain."
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Tuxedo Computers' InfinityBook Pro 14 is only 0.6-inches thick and 2.9 pounds.
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Google Meet Hardware knows you're in a meeting, so it will disable the hotword.
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"Choose not the oath of fear, but that of faith."
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Engineers ran the numbers, and the answer varies.
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"This has been a really tough thing."
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When it comes to health issues, not all forms of being sedentary are equal.
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The request is partly based on preclinical data. A clinical trial has yet to start.
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Sony is introducing a new controller for the PS5, the DualSense Edge, to provide gamers more customization options than the original DualSense.
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Asus shows off the ROG Crosshair X670E Gene motherboard for Zen 4 CPUs.
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If one PCIe 5.0 x4 drive is not enough, four may be just what you want. Gigabyte's Aorus Gen5 AIC adapter can reach speeds of up to 60 GBps.
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4K OLED panels are G-Sync compatible, offer deep blacks, wide color gamut, up to 138 Hz refresh rates, and 0.1ms response times for immersive fast-paced gaming.
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Chinese manufacturer LeapFive has revealed the NB2, its RISC-V processor with a GPU on board.
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One of Valve's employees unexpectedly announced more Q4 reservations for the Steam Deck are being transferred to Q3, with production outperforming expectations.
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The Akko ACR Pro Alice Plus is a mainstream interpretation of the highly coveted Alice layout that features a fantastic gasket-mount design and a boat load of accessories.
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It would be natural to see downward pricing pressure due to such large inventories, but some PC makers are confident they can use 80-90% of their PC ICs and components in next-gen PCs.
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You can order an engineering sample of AMD's Ryzen 5 7600X online.
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The Arctis Nova 7 Wireless has been redesigned to look like the Arctis Nova Pro Wireless, with a fully-retractable mic, simultaneous dual-wireless connectivity, and new speaker drivers that...could be better.
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The Arctis Nova 1 is a slim, lightweight, comfortable analog headset, and it costs just $60.
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The Arena Wireless Mic is a wireless, on-ear mic designed to work with speakers (which it does, very well), but it’s pretty expensive for such a specific product.
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Arctic has released a free service kit for all owners of defective Liquid Freezer II AIOs, featuring a bad gasket. The service kit allows users to replace the gasket at their location, keeping system downtime low.
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NVIDIA has released the latest update to their special Vulkan Beta Driver, for developers and users who want to test out the very-latest stuff.
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After being announced back in June, we now actually have a release date for the latest Hearts of Iron IV expansion from Paradox with By Blood Alone coming on September 27th.
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Creative Assembly and SEGA have announced the massive Total War: WARHAMMER III 2.0 patch which comes along with a Beta version of Immortal Empires.
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ProtonUp-Qt is a simple and great way to manage the likes of GE-Proton (previously known as Proton GE), the Luxtorpeda compatibility tool for Native Linux game engines and more.
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GOG are making a big splash with "The GOG Sale" which is live now until September 5th, 10 PM UTC. Time to pick up a bunch of DRM free goodies?
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Valve has confirmed that production of the Steam Deck has gone better than expect, and so even more (yes again) people will be seeing their emails to purchase one.
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Now Intel just needs to ship a compatible CPU
Hot Chips Intel offered the closest glimpse yet at its flagship datacenter GPU, code named Ponte Vecchio, at the Hot Chips conference this week, with its own internal benchmarks showing the chip outperforming AMD’s MI250x and competing head-to-head with Nvidia’s upcoming H100 GPU.…
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Network interface card LEDs are a risk too by blinking in Morse code
An Israeli security researcher known for foiling air gap security measures has published a reminder of just how vulnerable the approaches are to both visual and ultrasonic threats. …
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Ready or not, ISS is coming down in 2031, and Amazon, Boeing and more are ready for business
NASA has given the go-ahead for the first commercially owned and operated space station, Orbital Reef, to advance to design phase.…
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Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta spends billions on the concept
COMMENT While Meta has been hemorrhaging billions trying to bring CEO Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse to life with little to show for it, China has decided it too will take a crack at the virtual-reality concept.…
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Top secret tech theft admission sealed into top secret plea deal
An ex-Apple engineer who worked on Titan – the company's "need to know basis" self-driving car project – yesterday admitted to stealing proprietary tech while he was working for the company.…
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CEO pledges to 'keep moving Moore's Law forward' during Hot Chips keynote
Hot Chips Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sees a future where everything is a computer assembled from chiplets using advanced packing technologies like Intel's own as the chipmaker seeks to keep Moore's Law alive.…
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Privacy case claiming Big Red contravened a string of US laws follows boasts made by Larry Ellison in 2016
Oracle is the subject of a class-action suit alleging the software giant created a network containing personal information of hundreds of millions of people and sold the data to third parties.…
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Airbus's solar-powered Zephyr nosedives after more than 64 days aloft
An unmanned, solar-powered drone was hours from breaking the world record for the longest-duration flight before it suddenly crashed.…
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Telco billionaire purchase A-OK from national security standpoint, apparently, but will he buy up more?
The UK government has declared it will take no further action regarding the purchase of BT shares by French telco billionaire Patrick Drahi, following a national security assessment into his Altice company becoming the largest BT shareholder.…
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Japanese giant will stop making mainframes four years later
Fujitsu has been awarded a renewed contract for support and maintenance of the aging UK Police National Computer (PNC) after no other companies tendered for the work.…
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New and friendlier CAC, after years of cracking down
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has signaled it would like to smooth growing tensions with internet firms after a couple of years in which it strongly asserted its powers.…
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Oh wow, get a load of Google using strcpy() all wrong – strcpy! Haha, you'll never ever catch us doing that
Microsoft has described a severe ChromeOS security vulnerability that one of its researchers reported to Google in late April.…
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Here's how to detect an intrusion via vulnerable email systems
Organizations that didn't immediately patch their Zimbra email systems should assume miscreants have already found and exploited the bugs, and should start hunting for malicious activity across IT networks, according to Uncle Sam.…
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Hopefully Lucky 13 spots suggested, all on the south pole near water ice
The next US astronauts to set foot on the Moon will find themselves on the summit of a mountain range or the ridge of a crater near the lunar south pole.…
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Timing for plan to redirect HTTP requests now indeterminate to allow for further feedback
More than a decade after implementing support for secure HTTPS connections on its website, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is finally planning to begin redirecting insecure HTTP connections to the more protected spec.…
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But don't worry, Zuck would never misuse this type of sensitive data
Novant Health confirmed that it may have disclosed 1.3 million patients' sensitive data, including email addresses, phone numbers, financial information - even doctor's appointment details - to Meta.…
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Tiny server can unlock greater powers in not only HomeKit, but Google and Alexa.
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An internal petition says individual teams should set remote-work policies.
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Pilot can't quite escape the shadow of Game of Thrones, but it's eminently watchable.
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E-cores in desktop CPUs have proven handy for big multi-threaded workloads.
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New page highlights popular podcast episodes and playlists.
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Inflation, lockdowns, and a sense of sameness hurt global smartphone demand.
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Fauci, 81, has advised seven presidents on infectious disease threats.
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ClearMR spec grants monitors, TVs, & more with a number representing motion blur performance.
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Apple will sell and rent parts and tools for M1 Mac laptop repairs.
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A "reboot" that doesn't even surpass open-world GTA-like games of the late '00s.
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"We hadn't really expected it to be this good, to be honest."
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Scammers are using cloud services to create and host web pages that can be used to lure victims into handing over their credentials
Criminals are slipping phishing emails past automated security scanners inside Amazon Web Services (AWS) to establish a launching pad for attacks.…
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There is a madness to the methods
Boffins at universities in France, Germany, Luxembourg, and Sweden took a deep dive into known Java deserialization vulnerabilities, and have now resurfaced with their findings. In short, they've drawn attention to the ways in which libraries can accidentally introduce serious security flaws.…
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Washington, Seoul, Beijing, Taipei and ...Mexico City battle to attract vendors
Mexico is the next country in line to offer incentives to tempt semiconductor manufacturers to set up shop, and may be aiming to take advantage of the US desire to bring manufacturing closer to home.…
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For 'limited, serial number-authorized repairs' in move unlikely to appease critics
Loyal Mac fans inclined to break out the WD-40 and duct tape when their trusted devices misbehave now have access to an official Apple Self Service Repair program.…
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Prolific group pummeled days after claiming to be file thief behind attack on cybersecurity vendor
The LockBit ransomware group last week claimed responsibility for an attack on cybersecurity vendor in June. The high-profile gang is now apparently under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) because of it.…
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In the battle between bandwidth, latency, and starvation, we'll always be choosing two
Trying to create a network that's fair, equitable, and starvation-free may simply be impossible – at least with current congestion control algorithms (CCA), an MIT study has found.…
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Fellow group member Taiwan claims it never got the invite
A South Korean official confirmed on Thursday that the country would attend the preliminary meeting of the so-called international Chip 4. Fellow prospective member, Taiwan, claims it had not been given any details of the event.…
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A faster 51.2Tbit/sec co-packaged switch is also in the works
Broadcom will deploy its 25.6Tbit/sec Humbolt co-packaged optical (CPO) switches in China-based cloud provider Tencent's datacenters in a bid to accelerate adoption of the emerging network tech.…
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Liz Truss to go over IR35 off payroll tax as ruling party voters gear up to pick their leader
The leading candidate to replace Boris Johnson as the UK's prime minister has said she would review changes to the IR35 tax rules so often criticized by IT contractors.…
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PowerPoint presentations are all well and good, but for Peter Beck, you can't beat something physical
Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck spoke at the SmallSat 2022 conference and offered up words of wisdom for anyone pondering an entry into the lighter end of the launch market.…
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No country for old menus
Opinion A year ago, corporate VR sucked deep on the hype pipe and offered it around. We weren't convinced. All that investment, all that technology, to recreate a drab pastiche of the very environments we'd gratefully escaped in the magical world of WFH.…
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New kid on the block risked decimating colleagues' side hustle
Who, Me? When you start a new job, you always want to impress the boss by going the extra mile (or kilometer). But doing so can risk incurring the wrath of co-workers. …
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It's getting hot in here so take down all your nodes
Comment This year's summer heatwaves aren't just making your average Brit's life a bit miserable, it also caused problems for some cloud providers and server admins trying to keep their gear running.…
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Plus: See if in-app browsers are monitoring you, a novel industrial network attack technique, and more
In brief Zoom fixed a pair of privilege escalation vulnerabilities, which were detailed at the Black Hat conference this month, but that patch was bypassed, necessitating yet another fix.…
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Plus: Indonesia's four-hour takedown demand; Peak Facebook in Korea?; Alibaba frees font; and more.
Asia In Brief Huawei last week unveiled initiatives to encourage developers to work on its Harmony OS – the platform it created after US sanctions denied the Chinese giant access to Google's Android operating system.…
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A new motion blur specification has been released by VESA, to more accurately benchmark image quality in motion on all types of displays.
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Intel details the company's Ponte Vecchio Xe-HPC GPU at Hot Chips 34.
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We don’t know if the improved pace of development will mean an earlier date for the mass production of N3E. However, if this is likely, TSMC will promptly inform the market/shareholders.
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The latest data from the German publication 3D Center reveals the newest trend in AMD and Nvidia GPU pricing.
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During an RMA process, a Samsung representative reportedly asked a customer to destroy his dying Samsung 980 Pro SSD.
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Intel detailed its 3D Foveros chiplet packaging technology for its Meteor Lake, Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors at Hot Chips 34.
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Intel hopes to deliver up to 4.4x faster graphics and 6.6x AI inference to the edge and has lined up hybrid IoT chips up to 14C/20T and 45W power.
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Extreme overclocker SkatterBencher tries his best to overclock Intel's Arc A380 to 3.1 GHz, but Intel driver limitations and PL4 power limit issues prevent a successful overclock.
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A UK legal action alleging Sony kept PS Store prices high is seeking up to £5 billion in compensation.
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We've tested a collection of graphics cards on the Saints Row 2022 reboot to see what sort of performance you can expect. We also provide an in-depth look at the settings and which ones have the biggest impact on frame rates and image fidelity.
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Cooler Master’s GM32-FQ is a 32-inch IPS/QHD gaming monitor with 165 Hz, Adaptive-Sync HDR and extended color. It also sports near-perfect color accuracy and extremely low input lag.
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Solaria123 is using the HDMI port on his Raspberry Pi 4 to enable I2C support when access is otherwise blocked.
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Plazas and Promenades is the next expansion for the city-builder Cities: Skylines, giving you the option to build up some special pedestrian zones.
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Failbetter Games put a new production update post up recently for Mask of the Rose that went over the user interface, but they also announced a delay.
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It's the beginning of a fresh week so maybe you want some new games? Well, Humble Store has a huge amount discounted in their new Summer Sale that lasts until September 6th.
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Star Labs, hardware vendor with some really lovely looking laptops with first-class Linux support have announced the StarBook Mk VI with Ryzen 7 or Intel 12th Gen.
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A city-builder not quite like the others it seems. Synergy from Leikir Studio and Goblinz Publishing has a pretty great pastel colour style to it.
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Listing the USB devices connected to your system can help in troubleshooting the USB issues. Learn various GUI and command line methods of getting USB details in Linux.
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A new Cannon Lake "Special Samples" prototype CPU has emerged, showcasing a third die featuring integrated voltage regulation functionality.
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AMD's Threadripper Pro 5995WX and 5975WX barrel into the workstation market with 64 cores, 128 threads, eight memory channels, and class-leading performance.
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If you're selling your PC or storage drive, you need to wipe it so well that the next person can't recover your data.
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Plus: How US Homeland Security uses AI – and text-to-image systems deployed in social media
In brief Elon Musk wants Tesla's robot butler to be able to cook, mow laws, and care for the elderly, he wrote in an essay published in a magazine backed by the official Cyberspace Administration of China.…
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Dealmaster also has Anker charging cables, Doom games, and Surface PCs.
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Urine has lots of nitrogen and phosphorus—a problem as waste, great as fertilizer.
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YouTuber PCGH Benchmarks & Analysis has tested the Arc A380 graphics card on Crysis at 1080p (1920x1080) resolution.
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The latest Intel Graphics Compiler patches unearthed references to accelerated ray tracing abilities in Meteor Lake’s iGPU.
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Tennis Smith has created a Raspberry Pi-powered doorbell that listens for his to meow before sending a notification text.
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Sharing code is how we learn, but we don’t want to share too much. In this how-to, we learn where to safely store our account credentials, and how to work with them.
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Traffic is growing 30 percent every year, there's no reason to believe that'll change, BT's Andrew Lord argues
Every year the bandwidth that telecom networks carry increases by roughly 30 percent. To keep up, the interconnects on which these networks are built are going to need to get a whole lot smarter and more capable before long, BT's Andrew Lord said during his Hot Interconnects keynote early this week.…
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Hopefully these probes won't end up as target practice for some aliens in a few centuries
The most distant human-made objects, Voyager 1 and 2, are still cruising in interstellar space, more than 12 billion miles from Earth, as NASA today celebrates the 45th year of its longest-operating mission.…
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Valve has released the latest version of Proton Experimental, which has multiple newly supported games and a few useful bug fixes included.
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Linux Mint is undoubtedly the best distribution for the beginners. The Mint 21 release makes it a bit better in terms of features and functionalities.
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Sandia has been working on the project for more than a decade – now comes scaling
When it comes to turning turbines, steam is out and supercritical carbon dioxide is in – as demonstrated by Sandia National Labs when it connected a closed-loop system to the local grid, supplying 10 kilowatts of power for nearly an hour. …
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Shakeup in teaching looms as code-completion tool lets students 'bring an Uzi to a knife fight'
Microsoft's AI code-suggestion tool GitHub Copilot is showing itself to be so capable that educators may have to rethink how they teach computer science.…
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Tesla sedan, 46 Chanel bags, 16 Rolexes, and more equals three years behind bars
Now-former HP finance manager Shelbee Szeto has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to forfeit more than 250 luxury items after she blew $5m on herself using company credit cards.…
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Realizes there's a big beautiful world out there and sets sail for Japan
Microsoft has taken a tentative step to expand the Windows Subsystem for Android outside of the US by making the preview available in Japan.…
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Imagine how much Apple would charge for a power lead that long
A spacewalk by a pair of cosmonauts working on the European robotic arm on the International Space Station ended prematurely due to battery power issues.…
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We look at the official flavors, but there are more out there
Alongside the official flavors, some of Ubuntu's other remixes have new 22.04.1 versions out: Unity, Cinnamon, and Kylin.…
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AWS said to be taking an interest in homegrown silicon, meaning chipmaker must have a functional demo
Chipmaker Qualcomm is said to be preparing to re-enter the Arm server market, based on technology the company gained from its acquisition of startup Nuvia last year.…
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Customers could be better off with specialist providers and service partners, Chocolate Factory decides
Google Cloud is turning off its IoT services as of August 2023, leaving customers with less than a year to find alternatives.…
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If you absolutely must keep using those proprietary formats, walk this way
Just over six months on from version 7.3, LibreOffice 7.4 Community has arrived, boasting improvements in Microsoft Office compatibility.…
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Trail from Super Orange HK Holding Ltd leads back to National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund
The UK government has blocked the sale of a British chip design software outfit to a Chinese company, citing national security. The move is the latest step the government has taken in its increasingly defensive stance against foreign ownership of UK technology companies.…
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Well now there's an idea
In what may be a major shift, Google plans to revise its search algorithm to rank content crafted primarily for people rather than content designed to impress web crawlers and indexing bots.…
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Long list of open standards contributions part of journey to REST-based GIS stack, companies say
Database vendor MariaDB has forked out an undisclosed sum for CubeWerx, a geospatial data specialist, in the hope of making make these features easier to build into data-hungry applications.…
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Not to mention the severely disadvantageous subscription model
Something for the Weekend I have an app whose sole purpose is to launch another app.…
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Who knows where all those cables go anyway?
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's ongoing chronicle of IT incidents that readers have managed to survive, divert or diminish, while emerging with reputations intact.…
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Privacy, it's a useful marketing term *Offer does not apply in China
Apple has left a VPN bypass vulnerability in iOS unfixed for at least two years, leaving identifying IP traffic data exposed, and there's no sign of a fix.…
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A350 saved from peril by sharp-eyed ground crew
Australian wasps have once again brought a passenger aircraft to the brink of peril.…
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Tech preview is Azure-only for now, adding to previous AWS Arm adventures
Red Hat has delivered a tech preview of its OpenShift containerization platform that can drive clusters spanning both x86 and Arm silicon.…
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Mandate goes into effect October 1, but industry players will have one year to comply
Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications updated cybersecurity laws this week to mandate Big Tech and telecoms companies store user data locally and control that data with local entities.…
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Don’t Panic if you run terabytes of RAM and need to understand a dumped snapshot
Oracle's Solaris operating system remains widely used, even though Big Red more or less froze development of the product in 2018 save for regular Support Repository Updates (SRUs) that add minor updates and bug fixes.…
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There's always a get-out clause
An attempt by lawmakers to improve parts of the US government's cybersecurity defenses has raised questions – and hackles – among infosec professionals.…
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Sure, it's pricey, but not using it would be more expensive, says drug maker
A one-time gene therapy treatment recently approved by America's FDA is gaining attention not just for its clinical value, but for its price: at $2.8 million, Bluebird Bio's Zynteglo is the most expensive drug in US history.…
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Rollerdrome is a thoroughly odd blending of mechanics and style found in the likes of Tony Hawk Pro Skater, a little Jet Set Radio and Max Payne.
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Did you enjoy Into the Breach and other similar small-scale strategy games? Tactical battler Tyrant's Blessing has released along with Native Linux support and it's Steam Deck Verified.
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Roadwarden is an illustrated text adventure that I've played the demo of a few times through its development, and it's finally getting a release.
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Here is your daily dose of what the heck? YouTube and the mighty algorithm decided for no apparent reason, that my Steam Deck video was "harmful and dangerous".
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As time goes on, more developers are tweaking their games to improve the Steam Deck experience and Witchtastic looks like a fun co-op game to try out.
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Motion Twin / Evil Empire have announced that Dead Cells is increasing in price in Argentina & Turkey, as it seems too many people were taking advantage of the cheaper prices from other countries.
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Love your superhero stuff? Keep an eye on Capes, an upcoming turn-based strategy RPG full of people with superpowers.
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Plus eight other winning images in 2022 BMC Ecology and Evolution image competition.
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With Botometer tool, you can "choose any threshold... to get any result you want."
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The ambitious change is expected to cut energy consumption by a factor of 1,000.
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At $249,000, the Lucid Air Sapphire will be a rare thing indeed.
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Nuvia—a company founded by ex-Apple CPU engineers—will also tackle server designs.
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Some are seeing charges on cards they've never activated or hardly used.
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Company says Framework's 3D-printed motherboard case infringes its trademark.
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One class of PFAS chemicals can be broken down into harmless compounds with lye.
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Full 60+ game list also includes some Genesis classics with new gameplay features.
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All signs point to notorious 20th-century forger.
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Easily one of the best Chromebooks you can buy, but it could use a price drop.
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"We are definitely seeing significant attrition. That should surprise no one."
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Using a markdown file , this style sheet and this simple command,
pandoc couronne.md --standalone --css styling.css \
--to html5 --table-of-contents > couronne.html
I feel I will never need a word processor again. It produces this nice looking document without pain.
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We help you find RTX 3060-powered gaming laptop deals.
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Asus announces rough and tough AM5 motherboards for AMD's Ryzen 7000-series Zen 4 CPUs.
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An almost fully fledged Raptor Lake CPU product table highlights the evolution to expect moving from Alder Lake. Some chips seem to fare better than others across the gen-to-gen transition.
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Bitcoin has followed the general trading markets in its fall to three-week lows of $21,400: the sharpest decline over two months. In addition, expectations of a hawkish fed and more aggressive moves against inflation have reduced investor confidence.
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MSI has created a new low-profile Mini-ITX motherboard featuring a Core i5 Tiger Lake processor for professionals desiring to build a compact desktop workstation that sips power.
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Nvidia shared more details about the Nvidia Grace CPU and Nvidia Grace Hopper CPU Superchip at Hot Chips 34.
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In the battle of the following gen 2P server systems, AMD leads, despite Cinebench R23 rendering maxing out at 125C/256T - leaving 64C/128T of untapped potential.
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Gigabyte unveils its client PCIe 5.0 x4 SSD with up to 12.4 GBps throughput.
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How warm is it? Is the air too humid? Are there volatile organic compounds in the air? Enviro Indoor will help you find out.
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RS Components had been a manufacturer and distributor of Raspberry Pi since its launch in 2012.
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Workspaces are a great way to stay organized and productive. Here is how to create and use workspaces in Linux Mint Cinnamon.
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The long-predicted shift finally happened.
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Lower emissions and lower obesity would more than offset the added traffic deaths.
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CHD says the ban came "without warning." Meta says it followed many violations.
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Decent power for traveling or small hands.
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The firm hopes stopping all health data collection will block the FTC's lawsuit.
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The Moto Edge has a super-fast display, but can the MediaTek SoC keep up?
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Problem has been assigned an official CVE ID, despite lack of specifics.
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MacOS security researcher was able to bypass the fix issued just last weekend.
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Text found in iOS app code says plan won't allow downloads for offline viewing.
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Twitch streamers also hit for playing with modded characters like Jesus Christ.
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After a chain of attacks, security firm got access to locations and recordings.
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Swedish publication Vi Bilägare quantified the problem with new tests.
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Such an initiative would require a 200-fold increase over current space-lift capacity.
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Limited Run Games has also been acquired, along with five worldwide game studios.
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The app is adding internal teams to review influencer posts for violations.
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First CrossMark results of Intel's Core i5-13600HX leak.
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AMD is reportedly dealing with serious AGESA microcode issues on its upcoming AM5 platform, which might delay Ryzen 7000's release window to late September.
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Samsung envisions 1TB DDR5 modules to arrive in 2024, DDR5-7200 to hit the market in 2025.
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Framework is changing the power button on its open source case design after a challenge from Lenovo claiming that it infringes upon Lenovo's Legion trademarks.
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Intel factories in China's Sichuan Province, have been shutd down in order to reduce the strain in the electrical grid.
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We help you find RTX 3070-powered gaming laptop deals.
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New evidence surrounding Samsung's 990 Pro SSD suggest it will be either a PCIe 4.0 or PCIe 5.0 drive.
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ThinkLearnDo has created a Raspberry Pi-powered keychain holder that can back up data overnight to a USB thumb drive.
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The Core i9 Raptor Lake chip jumps from being 39% to 59% faster than its Alder Lake predecessor thanks to the application of an improved cooling solution.
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Ubuntu has a new home: the VisionFive RISC-V board from StarFive.
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Nvidia updates its Chrome and Edge browser implementation of GeForce Now to support 1440p and 120 fps gameplay for members of the RTX 3080 plan.
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New Intel 700-series motherboards to enable extreme turbo boost levels for Intel's 13th Generation Core processors.
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Big crypto miners have racked up massive debts, but their hardware is still worth a lot of cash. However, SDIG is well placed for market swings as it also owns power generation plants too.
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The Dell Pro webcam offers 2K QHD resolution and performs well without any image adjustments or software tweaks.
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Cooler Master adds to its high-performance gaming monitor stable with the GM27-FQS. It’s a 27-inch QHD/IPS panel with 165 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10 and a wide gamut. With accurate color and smooth video processing, it’s ready to play.
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A bizarre situation in which a Janet Jackson music video can crash a laptop has gained official recognition.
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The Roccat Kone XP Air does a pretty good job at drawing attention to itself with its eye-popping RGB and ergonomic design, but its $170 price tag is steep.
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Here are the best RAM kits we’ve tested: computer memory ideal for gaming, video editing, and graphics-heavy applications.
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Fraudsters send fake Microsoft Office USB drives to gain PC access and demand ransom.
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Staff remind CEO 'don't be evil' and treat workers equally
Hundreds of Googlers this week demanded CEO Sundar Piachi do a better job protecting people seeking abortions by refusing to hand over to law enforcement any customer data that could be used to build a criminal case, and extending the health benefits full-time employees enjoy to contract workers.…
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Aiming to make Helium the standard for decentralized networks
DIY 5G network outfit FreedomFi has been bought by Nova Labs, the founding team behind the Helium Network.…
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Utility companies are offering $2 per kWh for power stored in battery tech
More Tesla Powerwall owners in California are getting the option to help fight blackouts – and get paid for it – as thecompany expands its virtual power plant (VPP) program to new areas of the Golden State. …
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Best before September 15, 2023
Microsoft has demonstrated that it really does care about Windows on Arm with a new Dev Channel build for Windows that brings native Arm64 support to its camera app as a low-impact start.…
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Beijing says legislation designed to interfere with its own efforts to build homegrown semiconductor industry
China has reacted negatively to the passing of the US CHIPS Act, saying that the program is anti-competitive and aims to block the Middle Kingdom's efforts to build up its own semiconductor industry.…
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46 million requests per second network flood comes as attacks increase by more than 200% compared to last year
Google says it has blocked the largest ever HTTPS-based distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in June, which peaked at 46 million requests per second.…
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Yep, that’s the same company a short-seller is alleging is a ‘useless toy’
Quantum computing startup IonQ now has a second system available on Microsoft's Azure Quantum cloud platform, claiming it will open quantum systems to a wider audience.…
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As mission-critical nature of software supports prices, users also find reason to invest
Despite inflation hitting a 40-year high and expected recessions, growth in enterprise software spending is expected to plow on at a steady 12 percent, according to figures from Forrester.…
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For all the billions poured in, is a 'Made in America' sticker worth it?
Analysis With all the fanfare and foundry expansions around the signing of the $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the semiconductor shortage will soon be over, and the US will emerge as a silicon powerhouse rivaling that of Taiwan's TSMC and South Korea's Samsung and SK Hynix.…
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'Even on a small coin battery, it could run for more than 10 years' claims researcher
A newly published research paper describes a compute-in-memory (CIM) chip that combines artificial neurons with resistive RAM (RRAM) so that the AI model weights can be stored and processed on the same chip.…
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Financial Services Commission also creates a digital assets task force
South Korea's Financial Intelligence Unit (KoFIU) said on Thursday it has identified 16 foreign crypto businesses it will investigate for operating unregistered.…
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And it IS a crowd – marketplace is busy. Customers get choice of analytics engine and storage layer in open approach
Former Hadoop stalwart Cloudera has announced a fully managed software as a service (SaaS) version of its data platform which it claims is more open than rivals in the over-crowded market.…
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Is this it? The robo-butler dream is coming true?
Video Google's largest AI language model is helping robots be more flexible in understanding and interpreting human commands, according to the web giant's latest research.…
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Which flavors are the lightest and the heaviest disk and memory-wise?
The Reg FOSS desk has lined up the official Ubuntu remixes to see which ones hog the most or least of your computer's resources.…
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Food and fuels, too? Totally not sounding like a Star Trek replicator
Last year, NASA produced oxygen on Mars. Now, scientists experimenting here on Earth may have found a much more efficient method of doing so for future missions. The resulting equipment could be used to produce the necessary materials for human colonization, too.…
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Hardware still required – plus tolerance for visiting the office and remote collaboration
Microsoft has advised its partner community that it will soon drop the price it charges for Teams Rooms, and add a version of the product aimed at small business.…
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Clop gang thought it hit Thames Water – but real victim was elsewhere
A water company in the drought-hit UK was recently compromised by a ransomware gang, though initially it was unclear exactly which water company was the victim.…
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Nastymail tracking service blames sloppy sending practices for swelling lists of dangerous mailers
Spam-tracking service Spamhaus reported Tuesday that some of the world's biggest brands are getting loose with their email practices, causing its spam blocklists (SBL) to swell significantly.…
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Another reason not to play 1989’s ‘Rhythm Nation’ – it messes with hard disk drives
The music video for Janet Jackson’s 1989 song “Rhythm Nation” has been recognised as a cybersecurity vulnerability after Microsoft reported it can crash old laptop computers.…
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Network boffins can't say why, suggest not using the worst providers
China's DNS resolvers fail two thirds of the time when handling queries for IPv6 addresses, and botch one in eight queries for IPv4, according to a group of Chinese academics.…
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As if the VR giants will let that stand – worth a try, though
Imagine for a moment that you wanted to spend time in what Meta solipsistically calls the metaverse, a keiretsu of interactive cartoon panoramas powered by commercial surveillance and payment persuasion.…
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Hanoi Studios have today put up their second multi-developer bundle on Steam, with a primary focus on highlighting studios that support Linux.
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Sneaking out at some point, Covert Critter is an upcoming stealth action game that will have Native Linux support. It's also pretty much Metal Gear Solid with animals.
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The weekend is coming closer and you want some new games? Check out the small Paradox Interactive bundle from Humble Bundle with a few of what they've published.
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Embracer Group are quite terrifying. The amount of power they have in the gaming industry is simply insane and now they're swallowing up more studios and even the full rights to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
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Valve has announced three things recently including multiple updates that are out now for the Steam Deck, plus a quick tease of what's to come for a Beta of SteamOS 3.4.
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Top tip: Your RSA private key should not be copied from a public code tutorial
A developer says he was able to run his own software on his car infotainment hardware after discovering the vehicle's manufacturer had secured its system using keys that were not only publicly known but had been lifted from programming examples.…
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.NET-based malware can push wide range of malicious payloads, and evades detection, Secureworks says
A highly pervasive .NET-based crypter that has flown under the radar since about 2015 and can deliver a wide range of malicious payloads continues to evolve rapidly, with almost 10,000 code samples being uploaded to VirusTotal over a 16-month period.…
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As promised, Peter Beck is sending a Photon next year. Because he can
Rocket Lab's Peter Beck is sending a Photon spacecraft carrying a small probe to Venus, marking the culmination of a childhood ambition for the CEO.…
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Linux distro announces the availability of Microsoft tooling on Jammy Jellyfish
Ubuntu and Microsoft have brought .NET 6 to the Ubuntu repositories, meaning that you can install it without adding any extra sources to the OS.…
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Misinformation's a concern, but Chinese media giant's own data privacy practices also have people worried
TikTok has joined Twitter in publishing new US midterm misinformation rules, with considerable crossover in scope and style.…
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Boeing 747-based platform now back in California with almost a month to go before science operations end
The doomed SOFIA observatory has made an earlier-than-planned return from New Zealand as the Boeing 747-based platform prepares to enter its final month of operations.…
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While enterprises are spending more on infrastructure than ever before, what goes up must come down
The datacenter industry may be starting to feel the effects of the economic slowdown, leading to further impacts on IT vendors and other suppliers, according to reports, while operators in the UK in particular are feeling the pain from rising energy costs.…
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@CEO, that macro looks sus, amirite?
Microsoft's Excel is to continue its march to be the coolest software kid on the block as @ mentions move closer to general availability for the desktop version.…
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Billions in funding at stake as PM hopeful Liz Truss says bloc 'in breach of agreement'
The UK government has launched formal consultations with the EU over the failure to secure its inclusion in the EU's €95.5 billion ($97.6 billion) research funding program since the island nation left the world's richest trading bloc.…
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Lucy probe is five years away from getting a closeup of Polymele's satellite
NASA scientists working on the Lucy mission, humanity's first exploration of the "Trojan" asteroids that orbit Jupiter's Lagrange points, have found a moon around one of the asteroids the probe will visit.…
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Desktop environment celebrates milestone birthday with a beta
The two original developers behind the GNOME project started work 25 years ago, and the 43rd version of their brainchild is nearly here.…
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Saaaaandia, where the wind comes sweeping 'cross the sea …
A novel offshore wind turbine design has been waiting for the right modeling software to come along to help make it a reality, and scientists reckon they've finally built it.…
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Precedent essentially meant that search results could be considered defamatory, which is dumb
Australia's High Court has overturned the 2020 decision that search results pointing to news stories make Google a publisher.…
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Two trusts saw nearly $18 million go up in smoke when Sensyne Health was delisted from AIM
Two NHS hospitals in the UK have lost nearly £15 million ($18 million) between them due to the collapse in value of an AI startup.…
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Does it hope to run Doom on the Moon or something?
NASA has awarded a $50 million contract to Microchip Technology, the microcontroller giant, to develop next-generation processors that will enable space computers to be 100 times faster than they currently are.…
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Testimonials from Russian generals not welcomed by DJI or Unitree Robotics
Russia's military has praised civilian grade Chinese-made drones and robots for having performed well on the battlefield, leading their manufacturers to point out the equipment is not intended or sold for military purposes.…
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Results are rubbish on Earth, but Mars United could be undisputed champions
Rocketry, energy, automotive, AI, tequila, tunneling and (maybe) social media entrepreneur Elon Musk has proclaimed his intention to buy Manchester United — the organization often cited as the world's most supported football club.…
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Rubbishes suggestions poisoned clones or ancient malware are worthy reasons for ban
Developers of the open source VideoLAN media player have started sniping at India's government over an apparent block on the project's website.…
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There's some pocket change in it for you, if you can crack this nut
DARPA – the US government's boffinry nerve center – is offering up to $10,000 to programmers who can whip up some AI to help find rare earth minerals on our home world and ease US supply constraints of critical materials needed by the energy and defense industry.…
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谢谢 美国!
US Commerce Department can make all the noise it wants about limiting tech exports to China, but it is reportedly doing little to actual stem the flow of components and equipment.…
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Sign-on you crazy diamond
RubyGems.org, the Ruby programming community's software package registry, now requires maintainers of popular "gems" to secure their accounts using multi-factor authentication (MFA).…
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It's the fifth Chrome zero-day patched by Google this year.
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New chips, new cameras, and the death of the iPhone mini are all possibilities.
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Dealmaster also has the Xbox Series S, 8BitDo gamepads, and board games.
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High Court finds Google isn't a publisher, says "a hyperlink is merely a tool."
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A modern, thoughtful update to the visual novel concept for disaffected Gen Z.
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Kernel and WebKit bugs can allow arbitrary code execution on Apple's devices.
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"The ambition of the show was to make it an eight-hour Tim Burton movie."
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Cultural, structural changes to shift focus from scientific publishing to public health action.
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Ryzen 7000 and Zen 4 will be a big overhaul for AMD's successful Ryzen CPUs.
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Pilot program reduced banned parties in Australia by 35 percent, company says.
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VPNs on Apple mobile devices reportedly keep connections open and expose data.
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Intel, Micron set to cut capital spending despite new law aiming to boost production.
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It’s more than just a showcase of the company's latest EV technology.
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"Breakthrough science is possible."
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Finland avoided some of the mistakes made elsewhere and opened its waste repository.
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Anti-vaccine org calls dip in childhood vaccination a pandemic "silver lining."
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It's not that Google doesn't like RSS, it just wants RSS to look like Google.
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Samsung's 8th Generation V-NAND memory looms to production.
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A team of researchers from China managed to entangle two different quantum memories across a 12.5 km distance in an urban environment, bringing the promise of a quantum internet closer.
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Tesla is growing its Ampere GPU powered AI supercomputer for now, but ultimately plans to replace the processing power with its own Dojo D1 ASICs forged on TSMC N7.
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Corsair has teased its first PCIe 5.0 SSD, showing speeds of up to 10,000MB/s. Full specs and release date weren't shared, but we expect it may launch this winter.
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A lucrative contract to make spaceflight processors has gone to Microchip Technology, Inc. of Arizona.
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A new image of a Ryzen 7000 qualifying sample has surfaced online. The image is a shot of AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7 7700X 8 core CPU.
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TSMC's N3 fabrication process to enter high-volume manufacturing in September.
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Even technologies which could be useful to the communist party controlled military are waved through. Critics say something must change to rebalance trade vs security concerns.
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We help you find RTX 3080-powered gaming laptop deals.
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Both the AW2523HF and AW2723DF feature a retractable headset hanger.
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Intel finally unveils its business-oriented NUC 12 Pro 'Wall Street Canyon' compact PCs.
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Large Bitcoin mining companies have made large losses, but continue to take out loans and refinance.
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Maurício Pessoa is using a Raspberry Pi Pico W to send alerts through Telegram when his doorbell is triggered.
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The Mavix M9 chair costs $1,000, but you get what you pay for. It puts other gaming chairs to shame with its comfort and ergonomic adjustments.
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The Loupedeck Live, Loupedeck CT, and Loupedeck+ consoles are excellent, highly-customizable tools for streaming, video editing, and beat-making, but the right one for you is situation-dependent.
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Tachyum proposes to build a 20 exaflops supercomputer based on its Prodigy processors by 2025.
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You've put 100+ hours into Vampire Survivors and now what? Spellbook Demonslayers is what and there's a free prologue available for you to try out.
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Blossom Tales 2: The Minotaur Prince is a new Native Linux release from Castle Pixel and Playtonic Friends. It hasn't been Steam Deck Verified yet but works great.
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Looking for some games to play on Steam Deck that are good, work well and don't cost too much? Here's a few choice picks from me to you.
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Airships: Conquer the Skies is a wonderful Native Linux indie game about constructing various vehicles and conquering everything you can with them.
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Not long after a bunch of changes rolled out to Preview and Beta, Valve has updated the Steam Deck Client software with various improvements.
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Recently it was noticed that users on more bleeding-edge Linux distributions that updated saw Easy Anti-Cheat no longer working on Linux, the culprit was glibc and now a Valve developer has spoken out about it.
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The apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade are both used for upgrading the installed packages. So, what's the difference?
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Curious to know the latest market share percentage for Linux desktop? You don't have to do the research, we've done it for you.
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18 people and businesses charged, one giant web of connections
America's financial watchdog has accused 18 individuals and shell companies of using compromised brokerage accounts to manipulate stock prices to rake in $1.3 million in illicit profits.…
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Big Blue certainly seems blue about letting any of these claims go to trial
IBM has settled the age-discrimination case brought against it by the widow of a sales executives who took his own life after being laid off.…
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You'll need a new motherboard, RAM, beefier PSU. But hey, at least GPUs are cheap again
AMD’s Ryzen 7000-series microprocessors will officially launch later this month during the company’s “together we advance PC” virtual event, where CEO Lisa Su and CTO Mark Papermaster will showcase the chipmaker’s Zen 4-based CPU cores.…
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Mandate starts in September, staff say its about 'fear of worker autonomy'
Apple has told its workforce they must come into the office for at least three days a week from September to get back to "in-person collaboration."…
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For when a GCP Local SSD is just not quite reliable enough
Chat platform Discord delivered a playful slap to Google yesterday with a post describing how the company dealt with "reliability issues" to achieve some impressively low latency.…
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Two different kinds of fraud, says judge while throwing out lawsuit against insurer
A Minnesota computer store suing its crime insurance provider has had its case dismissed, with the courts saying it was a clear instance of social engineering, a crime for which the insurer was only liable to cover a fraction of total losses.…
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Still waiting for 22H2? Have a 21H2 release preview to tide you over
Remember 2021? Microsoft does, and has emitted a fresh build to the Windows Insider Release Preview channel for Windows 10 21H2, with a few useful fixes, including one where Edge will stop responding when Internet Explorer mode is on.…
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Samsung, SK hynix, Micron benefit most but there are signs that pricing and shipment growth are weakening
The DRAM industry saw an increase in revenue for the second quarter of 2022 as some suppliers managed to expand the total bits shipped, but the PC and mobile markets weakened in response to inflation, while the server memory market continued to hold up.…
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A boon for administrators having to deal with Apple hardware while also keeping everything secure
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint's Tamper Protection in macOS has entered general availability.…
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Double the bandwidth of previous gen and 6x reduction in power consumption
Broadcom says it has doubled the capacity of its merchant switch silicon with the launch of the 51.2Tbps Tomahawk5 ASIC this week.…
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Bad guy also got SMS verification codes, and re-registered one of the numbers they searched for
The security breach at Twilio earlier this month affected at least one high-value customer, Signal, and led to the exposure of the phone number and SMS registration codes for 1,900 users of the encrypted messaging service, it confirmed.…
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Japanese Hayabusa-2 probe samples reveal coarse-grained phyllosilicates that may have served as 'cradles' for organics and water
Scientists examining samples from the asteroid Ryugu retrieved by the Japanese Hayabusa-2 probe have concluded that Ryugu is a drifter from the outer solar system.…
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Opening was delayed during that pandemic thing
Microsoft Azure launched a long-awaited new cloud region in Doha, Qatar, on Monday.…
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Seaborgium targeted dozens of orgs this year alone
Microsoft said it disabled accounts used by Russian-linked Seaborgium troupe to phish and steal credentials from its customers as part of the cybercrime gang's illicit spying and data-stealing activities.…
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Let's hope DALAS procurement is a tad more sensible than its soap opera namesake
The UK government's commercial wing has begun to set up a contracting agreement set to be worth up to £4.5 billion ($5.4 billion) for application software services supporting the nation's tax collector.…
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Industry set to readjust to new realities of raising cash
The second quarter of 2022 has seen more than nine times the number of layoffs from tech startups than the first, according to industry figures.…
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Did someone say ECC on an SBC?
That Raspberry Pi 4B feeling a bit pokey? Asus' Aaeon division has managed to fit an eight-core Xeon processor, complete with error correcting memory (ECC) support, and a PCIe 4.0 x8 slot into a four-inch single board computer.…
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Education Department planned to buy 70,000 laptops, blew its budget and bought just 40,000
When COVID-19 closed schools in The Philippines, the nation’s government acted to ensure its teachers had the kit they needed to keep working by allocating funds to acquire nearly 70,000 laptops.…
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Superconductive hybrid magnet claimed to be 4,500 times stronger than a fridge stick-on
Chinese scientists claim to have broken the record for producing the strongest steady magnetic field, one that's at least a million times more powerful than planet Earth's, using a superconducting system. …
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Scorching weather sees scarce juice diverted to aircon instead of laptops and lithium
A heatwave in China has disrupted operations at laptop component makers and assemblers in Sichuan province and the municipality of Chongqing this week, creating the possibility of further problems in tech supply chains.…
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Somebody went after crypto-centric companies’ outsourced email but the damage was felt in the cloud
Junior cloud Digital Ocean has revealed that some of its clients’ email addresses were exposed to attackers, thanks to an attack on email marketing service Mailchimp.…
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OceanBase 4.0 is derived from tech behind Alipay and is MySQL compatible
Ant Group, the financial services company spun out of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, has created a database it's claiming is a speedy and scalable alternative to MySQL, and will soon market it widely in China and beyond.…
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Always look on the bright (oh God, they are so bright) side of life
The US Air Force is giving $1.9 million to SpaceX to test if Starlink can support military bases in Europe and Africa.…
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Let alone the ones with 123456 to login. How sophisticated do attackers really need to be?
Thousands of machines on the public internet can be remotely controlled via VNC without any authentication, a cybersecurity vendor has reminded us this month.…
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Corn-y demo heralded as right-to-repair win
At DEF CON 30 on Saturday, an Australian who goes by the handle Sick Codes showed off a way to fully take control of some John Deere farming machine electronics to run first-person shooter Doom.…
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Landmark stones recorded low-water levels during droughts to warn future generations.
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NoA full-timers accused of "using the tester pool of associates as a dating pool."
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Some streamers report multiple swatting attempts weekly.
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The best-selling console has sat at $299.99 for an unprecedented five-plus years.
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22H2 includes security upgrades, redesigned Task Manager, and other refinements.
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Twitter must produce documents from a fired executive—but Musk wanted a lot more.
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Anti-rollback enforcement disables downgrades for Google's latest devices.
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What looks like Google's next mesh Wi-Fi router could offer better backhaul.
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Keyboards build on Drop's November release of LotR keycap sets.
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Bandwidth was set aside in 1999, but V2X has been an abject failure.
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You and the trillions of microbes in your gut can live in harmony.
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Test comes after delays due to Russia, China tensions.
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We killed the last thylacine about a century ago. Can we correct that mistake?
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Despite quality typing, power users may want more features.
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Retail giant hits out at US regulator’s tactics in probe into Prime memberships.
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“The world is beautiful and horrible, at exactly the same time…”
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TeleTracking, which has personal ties to Trump, made over $50M in federal contracts.
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Workers allege that casteism influences how companies hire and promote talent.
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A new report has come in detailing a 15% drop in hard drive sales volume for the past quarter, thanks to weakened demand in the consumer market.
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AMD X670E-based AM5 motherboards from Asus listed, ready for next-generation Ryzen 7000-series processors and starting at $670.
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The Chinese supercomputer OceanLight has just made it into the top five finalists in the Gordon Bell prize, steadfastly facing the premier US Frontier exascale supercomputer.
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Prolific robotics firm releases first robot with two programmable arms.
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Intel's Arc A380 is no longer locked behind Chinese borders, with the GPU now apparently shipping to the United States.
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Samsung’s curvy big “personal gaming theater” offers thrilling features like cockpit mode, sound dome technology, a remote dial OSD controller, and a $3,499 price tag.
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Nvidia’s Ampere graphics cards are reportedly set to get cheaper in the coming weeks, ahead of the Ada Lovelace RTX 40-series launch.
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A new 7-Zip benchmark result reveals a 60% performance improvement for the 13900K in decompression tests, and 20% in compression tests in comparison to the 12900K.
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Grgo Mariani has created a pocket-sized gaming console using the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller as its main processor.
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ASRock’s Z690 Extreme WiFi is a well-rounded option in the crowded $200 space. It offers three M.2 sockets, eight SATA ports, dual Ethernet ports, integrated Wi-Fi 6E, and a quality last-gen audio codec. The all-black look and bright RGB lightning help the Extreme stand out inside your chassis.
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Valve has today released Proton 7.0-4 after a short period in public testing, this brings further compatibility of Windows games on Linux desktop and Steam Deck.
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Across the Obelisk is a fantastic deck-builder that just left Early Access, as the first game under Paradox Interactive's new publishing label Paradox Arc.
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Titan Shell is an in-development twin-stick shooter from Meatbag Studio that blends in features from roguelikes / rogue-lites to offer a pretty interesting experience not many such shooters give you.
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Axiom Verge 2 from Thomas Happ Games has jumped over from the Epic Store to Steam and it comes with Native Linux support and it is also Steam Deck Verified!
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Love your cute and colourful little adventures? Dreamed Away from Nicolas Petton / Pineapple Works looks like it's worth keeping an eye on.
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Backpack Hero is a dungeon crawling roguelike where you need to constantly sort out your small backpack and it's absolutely sucked me in.
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ChimeraOS continues to improve the couch-gaming experience for Linux with ChimeraOS 34 out now and there's quite a number of improvements and fixes.
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Valve has put out a small upgrade for the Steam Deck in the Beta and Preview channels that seeks to improve the offline mode.
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I have experimented with a number of markdown editors and there are plenty of good ones there. However, I took an instant liking to Marktext. Here's why!
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Tech watchdog group worries iGiant will 'Sherlock' device manager
Apple is preparing to compete unfairly against enterprise device management firm Jamf, an advocacy group claimed on Monday, and has asked regulators to take a stand.…
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Cryptographically signs pics – but you'll pay $2,500 before you've bought a lens
Sony has announced a new camera feature that the electronics goliath claims will make digital images immune to secret manipulation and forgery.…
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Lawyers, journalists sue super-snoop agency and Spanish security biz
The CIA illegally spied on US citizens while they visited WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, a lawsuit filed today has claimed.…
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Rolling back to the pad tomorrow, the SLS might finally take flight in August
NASA's huge Space Launch System (SLS) will get its three launch attempts in the coming weeks after officials approved an extension to validation of the Flight Termination System from 20 to 25 days.…
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The arrest comes days after US Treasury levies sanctions against the crypto mixing service
Dutch authorities have arrested a software developer suspected of working with Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixing service that only two days earlier was sanctioned by the US government for allegedly laundering money for ransomware operators and other cybercriminals.…
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Not mentioned: China. Obvious target: China – even if the country hasn't designed advanced chips
The United States is formally banning the export of four technologies tied to semiconductor manufacturing, calling the protection of the items "vital to national security." …
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South Dublin County Council ban on buildouts set to be overturned by government
Trouble is brewing in Ireland as a ban on datacenter buildouts in the Dublin area has reportedly been challenged by one developer, while Amazon has now been granted permission for two new facilities near the city amid growing concern over the amount of energy bit barns consume.…
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Have your BitLocker key handy when updating, but maybe not on a Post-it stuck to the screen, OK?
Windows users are reporting BitLocker problems after installing last week's security update for Secure Boot.…
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Plan to regain semiconductor production market share may be a case of too little, too late
Analysis The long-awaited US CHIPS Act has finally been signed into law by President Biden, unlocking $52 billion in funding to boost the American semiconductor industry as a part of the broader $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act. Now the industry has to make good on its promises in a market where inflation is rapidly stifling demand.…
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Newly formed Tahoe Research Limited will seek to license them to third parties
Intel has entered into an agreement with IPValue Management Group that sees nearly 5,000 patents transferred to a newly formed company within the group that will seek to license them to third parties.…
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Directs customers to Maintenance Reset Utility so they can continue to print
Epson has clarified the dread "end of service life" inkjet printer warning with an updated support page directing users to its Maintenance Reset Utility after critics complained about repairability.…
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Second quarter revenues at zero, though should jump to $12m following successful flights from Cornwall
Virgin Orbit is burning less money, although it won't be launching quite as many rockets as originally hoped.…
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Tim Peake set to return to ESA as the race to first vertical launch from British soil continues
Feature It promises to be a busy few years for British spaceflight. Astronaut Tim Peake is due to return to the European Space Agency (ESA) and the UK's first vertical launches are set to take place in Scotland.…
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Of all the non-carbon energy options we have, this is the only one which can keep the lights on
Opinion What's GIF got to do with nuclear reactors? Commercial development of atomic power plants had largely stopped by the 1980s; even so you could do better than Deluxe Paint for your blueprints. Yet the connection is much more modern, to do with projects like the revival of molten salt tech as a new hope for zero-emission power.…
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Brute force and ignorance does not win the day
Who, Me? We've all heard the one about the cleaner in the hospital pulling the wrong plug. But managing to push back the schedule by months through sheer brute force? Welcome to Who, Me?…
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Beijing lifts the lid on how Alibaba, Douyin, Tencent, Baidu do business – and censor content
Beijing's internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), has released information about the algorithms that some of the nation's biggest tech companies use to make their services work.…
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Government said they need the Samsung boss back at work to deal with South Korea’s looming economic crisis
South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol issued a widely anticipated pardon for Samsung heir and vice chairman Lee Jae-yong that came into effect today.…
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Local startup can make it happen over 150km
India's military has celebrated the nation's Independence Day by announcing it will adopt locally developed quantum key distribution (QKD)technology that can operate across distances of 150km.…
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Presiding officer was not impressed by Cupertino's arguments or behavior
Apple has been ordered to repair a MacBook Pro that displays all the symptoms of FlexGate – the syndrome of screen defects that the company has previously repaired for free – but which the company does not believe has the problem.…
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COVID, flood surfing, crowds – what to pick?
Black Hat As last week's hacker summer camps would down it's clear that attendee numbers are still well down on the pre-COVID days, although things are recovering.…
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Don't read the diffstat too closely, says Linus Torvalds – it's mostly another massive AMD update
Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds has released the first release candidate for Linux 6.0, but doesn't mind what you call it.…
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PLUS Vietnam's massive infosec push; Philippines telco fight; Australia dumps COVID app; and more
Asia in Brief Elon Musk has written an article for the Cyberspace Administration of China's flagship magazine.…
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No message, profile, or other data exposed—but SMS remains a weakness.
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"We can use this system to do quantum simulations of electrons and superconductivity."
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Apple's ads business has been a stop-and-go affair, but it's ready to go again.
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Advertisers have to verify abortion services, but not businesses, on Google Maps.
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DirectX9 is still in relatively wide use, given that it's 20 years old.
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The rocket may launch just two weeks from now.
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Move would help it meet its carbon emissions plans.
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Lola built some of the best racing cars in the world but went bust in 2012.
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Not a massive overhaul, but it adds Material You features, Bluetooth LE Audio, & more.
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Feature you'd normally want for secure software opened a huge hole.
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Three-game collection for $599 will have some unfortunate edits.
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"He isn't pale; he is gray. He doesn't look tired; he looks ancient."
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In the finale of our experiment, we look at how the low/no-code tools performed.
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Exploit now provides root access to two popular models of the company’s farm equipment.
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Eukaryotes, archaea, and bacteria share a set of proteins that block many viruses.
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If you're building a new PC, you may be able to use an old Windows key for its OS.
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A Linux expert has reported that Alder Lake laptops sporting the MIPI IPU6 are suffering from Linux compatibility issues surrounding proprietary drivers. Full open source drivers are a long way away.
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Appeals to potential customers to “save your neck and your desk space,” by opting for this decidedly different dual-24-inch clamshell display on a stand.
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The developer decided to go public with this Switch-fan OS work now that the milestone of the first playable commercial game title has been reached.
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Nvidia has reportedly restarted production on its RTX 3080 12GB SKU, as a result of oversupply issues surrounding its GA102 die.
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A tiny embedded system that supports a range of Intel processors.
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The Asus ROG Chakram X is a stunning example of a gaming mouse, but has some major issues that should deter just about anyone.
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GNOME 43 Beta is now available for public testing ahead of the September 21st, 2022, release of the GNOME 43 desktop environment series. Here's what's new since last month's GNOME 43 Alpha release.
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Valve has confirmed that they are (again) increasing the amount of people that will be invited to purchase a Steam Deck.
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THQ Nordic, 3D Realms and Slipgate Ironworks recently revealed Tempest Rising an upcoming classic RTS and after watching the trailer I absolutely need this.
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Probably one of the best spaceship building sandbox games around, Avorion has just grown tremendously with the Into The Rift DLC out now.
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Following from the successful Kickstarter campaign in 2020, Caligari Games have announced their Burton-style point and click adventure will release on September 15.
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Kitsune Zero is being releases on September 12 as a paid DLC for the free platformer Super Bernie World. This will act as a prequel to the upcoming standalone game Kitsune Tails.
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Bottles is easily the most simple way to manage installing and running Windows games and apps on Linux outside of Steam. A new release is out now with plenty of useful tweaks.
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Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS which brings together an updated download with all the bug fixes, updated apps, driver upgrades and more.
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Heroic Games Launcher enables you to download games on Linux and Steam Deck from both the Epic Store and GOG. A big new release is out now with some massive new features.
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News has been doing the rounds for a little bit about Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) suddenly not working after system updates for some users, turns out it's an issue with glibc.
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The apt-key is being deprecated and your system knows that. But do you know what you should be doing for getting packages from external repositories?
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Intel has made the decision to remove native DirectX 9 support from its latest Xe iGPs and Arc GPUs, and replace DX9 with DX12 emulation instead.
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MSI’s MPG X670E Carbon Wi-Fi is about €620, and the MSI Pro X670-P Wi-Fi about €410 on average. Converting to USD and taking off VAT would give pricing of $495 and $320, respectively.
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Preliminary Ryzen 7000 prices are here and are roughly 10 to 12% higher than Ryzen 5000 was at MSRP.
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Maker and developer Pheux9558 is using a Raspberry Pi to power a custom CNC drawing machine with the help of an Arduino and recycled PC components.
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The Raspberry Pi Pico W is mostly found powering maker projects, but in this how-to we use it to build an extremely low power web server.
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NIST-led engineers are working on building a real-time alert system
AI could help save firefighters' lives by predicting fire flashovers before they occur, according to new research published this week. …
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Do we want to recognise machines as authors?
The creative nature of neural networks is leading some to consider whether it might be worth changing current US laws that only grant copyright protection for works created by humans.…
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Plus: How Google is using language models to improve search, and watch Heinz's AI ketchup advert
In-brief Another day, another rogue AI chatbot on the internet.…
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Audacity is an incredibly useful tool for quick audio edits. Here's how you can install it on Linux and use it for audio recording and background noise removal.
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Wine is a compatibility layer that aims to let you run games and applications designed for Windows on Linux and a new release version 7.15 is out now.
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Need more games to fill up your library? Humble Bundle have put up another one that looks pretty good with the Tactical Combat Bundle. So here's what to expect on Linux desktop and Steam Deck.
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With Spider-Man Remastered now available on Steam after previously being PlayStation exclusive, I took it for a spin on Steam Deck and Linux desktop.
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Intel has changed the prize pool in its GPU-focused scavenger hunt to include an alternative Core i5-12600K or Core i7-12700K prize for the original Arc A750 and A770 prizes.
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From an MSRP of $999 to astronomical crypto-boom era prices nearing $2,000, multiple Radeon RX 6900 XT options are now available for $699.
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All of today's desktop CPU benchmarks compared, including Intel's 12th-Gen Core series and AMD's Ryzen Zen 3 and Threadripper.
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Using the free audio editor, Audacity, learn how to restore old recordings and improve audio clarity.
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The Ikki68 Aurora R2 is an excellent, mid-tier custom keyboard kit. It’s on the pricier side, especially for its lack of battery, but for that money, you get exceptional customization to ensure you find the typing experience you’re looking for. It looks, sounds, and feels great to type on.
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Dealmaster also has the Xbox Series S, Apple Watch Series 7, and Nvidia Shield TV.
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The book The Short Story of the Universe really does have it all.
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Researchers have proposed a variety of theories to explain symptoms of COVID long-haulers.
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FDA says yes to the tests
AI software capable of mapping tumor tissue more accurately to help surgeons treat and shrink prostate cancer using a laser-powered needle will soon be tested in real patients during clinical trials.…
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Tl;DR - the news isn't good
Black Hat In Brief Victor Zhora, Ukraine's lead cybersecurity official, made an unannounced visit to Black Hat in Las Vegas this week, where he spoke to attendees about the state of cyberwarfare in the country's conflict with Russia. The picture Zhora painted was bleak.…
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Don't have the budget or customer base for Graviton-class silicon? Intel thinks it can help
In a quest to deliver better application performance and greater efficiency, many software and hardware vendors are turning to custom silicon to achieve their goals.…
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Six years on web devs finally settle on sensor privacy defenses
Six years after web security and privacy concerns surfaced about ambient light sensors in mobile phones and notebooks, browser boffins have finally implemented defenses.…
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There goes the weekend...
A high-severity Palo Alto Networks denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability has been exploited by miscreants looking to launch DDoS attacks, and several of the affected products won't have a patch until next week.…
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Company insists it's doing so 'to honor people’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) choices'
Meta's Instagram and Facebook apps on iOS devices have been injecting JavaScript code into third-party websites from their custom in-app browser, gaining access to data that would be unavailable were those pages loaded in a stand-alone, WebKit-based iOS browser.…
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Don't feed the trolls? Users deem policy an attack on conservatives, dystopian, and election manipulation
Twitter has announced its plans to fight misinformation during the 2022 US midterm elections, including activating its Civic Integrity Policy (CIP).…
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Fashion Police chipping in on the bounty related to costliest strain of ransomware on record
The US government is putting a face on a claimed member of the infamous Conti ransomware group as part of a $10 million reward for information about five of the gang's crew.…
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The discovery could help scientists further understand the origins of life
Moon meteorites found on Earth contain trace gasses that lend further support to the widely held belief that our largest natural satellite formed from chunks of our planet that were ejected in a massive impact.…
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Another $13.7m handed out to researchers, but then again it does have an awful lot of attack surfaces
Microsoft appears to have beat Google on the bug bounty front, with $13.7 million in rewards spread out over 335 researchers.…
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26,000 engineers and call center operators to down tools again this month
The union representing upset BT workers has served notice on the one-time UK state owned telco that tens of thousands of engineers and call center operators will down tools for two more days of strikes this month.…
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Repurposes logic originally used for spotting variations in voltage, timing in older circuits to help performance
Black Hat Intel has disclosed how it may be able to protect systems against some physical threats by repurposing circuitry originally designed to counter variations in voltage and timing that may occur as silicon circuits age.…
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Ad behemoth committed to 'providing the most helpful products possible'
Google is being ordered to pay A$60 million ($42.5 million) in penalties to Australia's competition and national consumer law regulator regarding the collection and use of location data on Android phones.…
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Advanced's infrastructure still down and out, recovery to take weeks or more
Advanced, the MSP forced to shut down some of its servers last week after identifying an "issue" with its infrastructure hosting products, has confirmed a ransomware attack and says recovery will be in the order of weeks.…
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A new Windows esport event: Opening Outlook
Outlook sometimes goes wrong and even Microsoft occasionally can't work out why, judging by a freshly published Microsoft 365 support article.…
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Hello customer, can I help you? Ha ha, just kidding, of course I won’t
Something for the Weekend "That's it! I've had enough of this! I'm leaving!"…
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No Clippy, though, and that philosophy only seems to go so far
Microsoft open-sourced most of its emoji library this week.…
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Termin-what? Why can't I connect directly to the network
On Call Is a Loose Cannon worse than a Big Cheese? What happens when the two are combined? Stir in some overconfidence and you have today's entry in the On Call archives.…
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OSIRIS-Rex saw this happening. An odd meteorite suggests why and how
In 2019, scientists clocked something they'd never seen before: an asteroid named Bennu appeared to be popping off swarms of pebbles. Research published Thursday may go some way to explain why.…
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The renewed agreement more than doubles the DoD's deal with Joby Aviation
A flying taxi company with plans to take to the skies by 2024 has just received a $45 million cash infusion from the United States Department of Defense to explore military applications.…
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Some got so cranky waiting they made a t-shirt celebrating the 'CLOUD-6999' Jira ticket
On July 8, 2011, Atlassian Cloud posted a Jira ticket titled "Allow custom domains for Cloud apps".…
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But warns 'upcoming major release of vSphere' will break some plugins
It's not often that a double dot release of a product adds significant functionality, but VMware did just that on Thursday with version 4.4.1 of its Cloud Director Availability product, which adds the ability to migrate aged and unsupported versions of vCenter to the cloud.…
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Required customers to pay for software they did not receive, among other sins
Australia’s Federal Court has voided 34,000 contracts that Fuji Xerox’s local outposts offered to local small business customers, after they were found to be unfair in many ways.…
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Time to call in the legal team
Black Hat Dylan Ayrey, a bug hunter and CEO of Truffle Security, discovered a big data company credential dump containing personal information belonging to about 50,000 of its users, and still hasn't fixed it. …
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Got thoughts on the online panopticon? The FTC wants to hear
The US Federal Trade Commission on Thursday announced an effort to formulate privacy rules to deter unwelcome online monitoring and shoddy data security.…
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Most organizations don’t have the financial resources necessary to address ransomware and other cyberattacks, BlackBerry says
Black Hat Many organizations are increasingly unprepared to deal with the skyrocketing costs of a ransomware attacks, at a time when the number of incidents and the payments demanded by cybercriminals are rising rapidly.…
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'Until someone has to go to jail for doing it wrong the teeth are not going to be the same'
Black Hat video The security industry needs to take a leaf from the manual of an industry where smart incident response is literally life and death, if it is to fix systemic problems.…
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It can move without anything to push off from, but only via curved spacetime
A team of scientists from Georgia Tech say they've built a robot that can move without anything to push against - a discovery that seems to violate the law of conservation momentum. …
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Meanwhile, officials in London reported finding poliovirus over 100 times in sewage.
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The smallest consumer OLED TV LG makes currently measures 42 inches.
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Supported or not, new or old, this is everything you need to know.
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"We're watching stellar evolution in real time."
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Samsung hasn't changed the Galaxy Fold battery density for four years, and it shows.
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Plan came after GOP complaints, but FEC says it doesn't violate ban on contributions.
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Scientists opposed whaling and secretly tracked its toll.
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Printer makers have a history of invasive practices that hurt user repairability, experience.
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Lee's ascendancy to Samsung chairman position key to "vitalizing the economy."
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It's not just Stadia, either; non-Google streaming rivals also get featured.
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"One of the questions that we’re getting a lot is, 'How full are you guys?'"
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Unvaccinated people no longer need to quarantine and physical distancing is de-emphasized.
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Think you're too smart to be fooled by a phisher? Think again.
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Company with notable footage-sharing issues wants to do it more, but funny.
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Angstronomics reveals the potential specifications for AMD's looming RDNA 3 silicon.
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Gen 2 X-NAND technology may increase the throughput of our SSDs at no extra cost, according to a California company.
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Intel develops Tunable Replica Circuit technology to prevent non-invasive physical glitch attacks.
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A new codename from AMD known as Pink Sardine has emerged in Linux. The codename may correspond to AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7000 Phoenix mobile APUs.
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New laptops from German firm XMG include Ryzen 9 CPUs and external liquid cooling.
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It clocked at 3.1 GHz but consumed only 17.4W. It is a telltale sign that a volt-mod is behind the impressive 55% overclock compared to the stock 75W Arc A380 graphics card.
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Dmytro Panin uses a Raspberry Pi Pico to monitor MacBook stats by outputting data to a Pimoroni Pico Display Pack module.
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AMD's final 96-core EPYC 9654 'Genoa' processors are presumably shipping to the company's partners.
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Mingda’s Magician Pro is an easy to use printer with a massive build volume.
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LG brings a new screen shape to the market with its 28-inch DualUp 28MQ780. It’s a 16:18-aspect IPS panel with 2560x2880 pixels, HDR and a wide color gamut. It’s the same as stacking two 21-inch screens vertically, except there’s no line in the middle.
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Pre-Production BitBlaze Titan notebook based on Russian Baikal-M CPU demonstrated.
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AMD makes big gains in desktop, mobile and server CPU markets.
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Good news for Linux and Steam Deck fans, the yuzu team have worked to bring the installer for the Nintendo Switch Emulator over to Linux properly.
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Horizon Chase Turbo is a very highly rated retro racing game from developer AQUIRIS and today it sees a huge free upgrade.
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Hollow Knight developer Team Cherry has announced that an update due to go live on Monday, August 15th will bring a much needed change to the saving system.
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Valheim is due to get a huge upgrade at some point, which most players are now waiting on and Iron Gate have given the smallest of teasers on it again.
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Love Resident Evil and want to get a whole lot of it? Humble Bundle have put up the Resident Evil Decades of Horror bundle and it's a pretty full collection.
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While I was briefly away camping, Valve released a few Steam Deck Beta updates so here's a round-up of what's new in case you also missed it.
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You can use these tools to get dummy email addresses to share with third parties. Your actual email address is not exposed.
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Out of nowhere, a "GTX 2080" prototype has surfaced online. It gives us a clue that Nvidia was considering extending its GTX 16 series lineup into an 80 series product.
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YMTC starts shipments of enterprise-grade PE310 PCIe Gen4 U.2 SSDs with Xtacking 2.0 3D NAND.
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Alperen Akküncü has created a custom PCB that turns the Raspberry Pi Pico into a DAQ 4-channel oscilloscope tool.
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Cooler Master reveals two new cases in its CMP lineup, featuring front mesh panels and ARGB fans.
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Ethereum today successfully transited its last testnet, Goerli, towards the final code to be implemented in mainnet. The software update to Ethereum's Virtual Machine will enable the transition to Proof-of-Stake, besides other upgrades.
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Highlighting precise DRAM chip error locations could open up repair and salvage options. Only works on Intel Alder Lake DDR5 and Z690 platforms for now.
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If you want to play games or watch Netflix on a massive 34-inch screen, Dell's S3422DWG monitor for $389 is a fantastic option. Back down to its Prime Day sales price, this is the cheapest we've seen this widescreen beast.
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AMD recently updated its AMF H.264 encoder with a new feature called Pre-Analysis, this feature boosts video quality equal to that of Nvidia's Turing and Ampere-based NVENC encoder.
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Razer’s DeathAdder V3 Pro is a lightweight wireless gaming mouse that’s highly customizable and incredibly ergonomic.
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Chinese trade associations claim that U.S. CHIPS Act and Science law will intensify semiconductor geopolitical competition.
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Jared Mauch’s rural FTTH service quickly expanded from 1 to 30 customers and currently has 70. But he now has $2.6m of government funding to allow provisioning for nearly 600 customers.
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Intel shares new gaming benchmarks for the Arc A750 graphics card at 1080p and 1440p on various DirectX 12 and Vulkan titles.
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The inside scoop on the Ukrainian IT army, and what could happen next
Black Hat The hacktivist attacks that have occurred during the ongoing war in Ukraine are setting a dangerous precedent for cyber norms — and infrastructure security, according to journalist and author Kim Zetter.…
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OCSF initiative will give enterprise security teams an open standard for moving and analyzing threat data
Black Hat AWS and Splunk are leading an initiative aimed at creating an open standard for ingesting and analyzing data, enabling enterprise security teams to more quickly respond to cyberthreats.…
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Federal Election Commission votes to let Google allow campaign email through filters
The US Federal Election Commission on Thursday voted 4-1 to allow Google to create a program exempting qualified political email from Gmail spam filtering, despite emphatic objections from email users.…
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Plus, spoiler alert: ransomware is gonna get a lot worse
Black Hat video It turns out that ex-CIA chief information security officers don't spill secrets at bars in Vegas. Or via Zoom, while pretending to be at a Black Hat cocktail party.…
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Identity of a real person was used to lend credence to a package that dropped cryptominer in memory
Sonatype has unearthed yet more malware lurking on PyPI, this time a fileless Linux nasty designed to mine Monero and using the identity of a real person to lend credibility to the package.…
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Don't want the services? You'll still have to pay for them, activated or not
Drivers in the US and Canada are in for a bit of sticker shock as General Motors has made three years of its OnStar subscription service mandatory in many new vehicles at a cost of $1,500.…
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Dell'Oro sees traditional NICs being displaced for most hyperscale cloud infrastructure
SmartNICs are expected to play a significant part in growing the Ethernet adapter market, which is forecast to reach $5 billion by 2026, according to research outfit Dell'Oro.…
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Failing to fix flaws, a crowded threat group scene, RaaS, and dependencies among crooks are fueling the trend
Security experts spent years warning enterprises to expect cyberattacks and to plan their defenses accordingly, now Sophos researchers are saying organizations shouldn't be surprised if they get attacked multiple times.…
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RHEL SHA-ll speak unto RHEL… except from 9 to 6
If you're running a mixture of new and old RHEL versions, you may have problems SSHing from new to old. Luckily, someone has worked out a handy way around it.…
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Even those within the agency puzzled by the SpaceX decision when 'we have the technology to improve lives now'
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has rejected Starlink's application for subsidies under the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund program.…
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Technically the chip giant already owned the tech due to real inventor’s contract, according to DoJ
The US Department of Justice has charged four people with conspiring to fraudulently sell a startup for $150 million to a San Diego based multinational tech company that The Reg has identified as Qualcomm.…
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You might need to free up 24GB. A bug for now, but might be sign of way things are going
Remember when you could run Windows from a floppy disk? The latest Windows 11 Dev Channel Insider build could need at least 24GB of free space to download and install.…
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Paving the way for the role of AI in the future of nuclear waste processing
UK telephony outfit British Telecom has won a five-year deal for networking at the Sellafield nuclear site in northwest England.…
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More customers also adopting the server maker's green computing products, CEO says
Supermicro, server provider to the hyperscale cloud providers, has delivered better than expected figures for its fiscal Q4 2022, attributing it to a growing number of customers adopting its rack-scale solutions.…
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The collaborative effort pits supercomputers against the agency's corrosive reactor research
After more than 50 years, molten salt nuclear reactors might be making a comeback. The US Department of Energy (DoE) has tapped Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to lead a $9.25 million study into the structural properties and materials necessary to build them at scale.…
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Internetwork of satellite networks advances to 'actually building' stuff stage
DARPA's attempt to build an internetwork of communications satellites – which operates under the fabulous name Space-BACN – has tapped Intel, SpaceX and others to build kit that will make its planned "Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node" a reality.…
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Voice-phished their way in, but Switchzilla claims no damage done
Cisco disclosed on Wednesday that its corporate network was accessed by cyber-criminals in May after an employee's personal Google account was compromised – an act a ransomware gang named "Yanluowang" has now claimed as its work.…
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Invested $20 million in 2000 and will pocket $34 billion and keep a slice worth more than that – for now
Japan's SoftBank Group will offload almost half its holdings in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, netting over $20 billion to help it record a profit but casting doubts over Alibaba's prospects.…
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You may have had your fill of chips – but AWS, GCP, and Azure are still hungry, analyst tells El Reg
The hyperscalers and public cloud providers are barreling ahead, unfazed by a rapidly deteriorating economic outlook, according to a recent Dell'Oro Group report.…
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The Open Network for Digital Commerce could hardly ask for a more credible participant
Microsoft has decided to open a store in India's Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) – an effort the nation hopes will make it harder for the likes of Amazon and Walmart-controlled Flipkart to dominate e-commerce in the world's second most populous nation.…
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Ethical hackers, but for privacy programs
Black Hat Miscreants aren't only working to exploit flaws in an enterprise's security posture, they're also looking for holes in organizations' privacy programs to steal user data, according to Meta's Scott Tenaglia.…
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Guess what? Open source security still has gaps
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), as its name plainly states, aims to help make open source software more secure, but improvements flowing from its efforts are hard to find.…
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Lawyers at Google are unsure if they can patent chip floorplans created by machines
The question of whether AI-generated outputs can be patented is impacting how technology companies can protect their intellectual property.…
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Black Hat kicks off with call for single infosec agency with real clout and less confused crossover
Black Hat It's time to reorganize the US government and create a new agency focused solely on on digital risk management services, according to former CISA director Chris Krebs.…
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iMessage talks to Android users via outdated SMS/MMS, ad giant complains
Google has launched a campaign to pressure Apple to adopt Rich Communications Services (RCS), a protocol used by most mobile industry vendors but not the iPhone maker.…
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Australian scientists find first biomechanical evidence for a long-suspected idea.
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The Sub Mini was expected any day, but it's been pushed back.
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That's one way to say you're not necessarily raising prices, Disney+.
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Musk tells judge Twitter isn't producing names of employees he wants to question.
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Thousands of adult entertainers claim they were added to a "blacklist."
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A750 will be less competitive in older games, but it will all come down to price.
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Rulemaking action already has support, but some want Congress to act first.
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E2EE prevents anyone other than the sender and receiver from reading messages.
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The new Razr looks a lot like the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip.
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Plate tectonics may have its origins in impacts, based on new data from Australia.
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Ahead of a rumored shift to businesses, the video-calling device broadens its appeal.
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There are vulnerabilities in 5G platforms carriers offer to wrangle embedded device data.
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Research has implications for urban gardening and food production.
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The healthy boy died a week after falling ill with the tricky-to-diagnose infection.
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A quick tutorial about finding the MAC address of various networking interfaces including Bluetooth in Linux. Both command line and GUI methods have been discussed.
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Jon Peddie Research estimates Intel's GPU endeavors have resulting in $3.5 billion in losses and suggests Intel might want to sell it off after multiple failures.
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These are the best gaming keyboards that combine responsiveness, features, and style.
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We've tested the Spider-Man Remastered PC port on a group of AMD and Nvidia GPUs to see how it runs, and have also provided an in-depth analysis of the best settings for smooth frame rates.
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Gigabyte has revealed some new quality-of-life updates for its motherboards, featuring a latchless PCIe slot and a screwless M.2 slot.
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AMD makes big gains in desktop, mobile and server CPU markets.
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MSI releases the world's first PSU, that is compatible with Intel's new ATX 3.0 power supply standard. The new standard focuses on improving power-delivery and reliability, and features 600W power connectors for video cards.
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TrendForce expects consumer DRAM prices to drop 13% – 18% in Q3, then collapse further in Q4.
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SK hynix-owned Solidigm took to the Flash memory Summit 2022 to showcase its working prototype SSD based on Penta Level Cell (PLC) NAND, which promises to bring density increases to a market thirsty for storage.
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Chinese manufacturer LattePanda has taken the covers off its latest SBC, the 3 Delta.
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Intel and Nvidia prepare for big revenue drops as consumer demand falls; AMD and Apple are doing fine.
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You can currently get your hands on Intel's flagship processor, the Core i9-12900KF, for only $499 on eBay saving almost $50 off its usual price.
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Newly discovered side-channel attack recovers 4096-bit RSA key on AMD's Zen-based CPUs.
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The 128TB SSD uses QLC NAND and a PCIe interface.
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be quiet!'s Pure Loop 2 FX brings lots of RGB and a redesigned pump that helps the 360 model perform well in our testing with Intel's Alder Lake Core i9 CPU.
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AMD's next-generation AM5 CPUs to offer 'high bandwidth' and 'low latency' modes.
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2.8 GHz is now the expected frequency ceiling for Nvidia's upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 mid-range GPU. With a base clock estimation of 2310MHz.
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Intel's Ice Lake, Rocket Lake, and Gemini Lake CPUs are vulnerable to ÆPIC Leak vulnerability.
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Biren's first GPUs can challenge Nvidia's A100 GPU in select workloads, at least on paper.
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Stylish, durable NVIDIA Studio laptops featuring 4k displays and NVIDIA RTX GPUs are ideal for students and creatives with processing-intensive workflows
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After service's June revision, we review how poorly its "classic" library is going.
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The technology has drawn scrutiny from privacy activists and politicians.
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Visitor accounts, artwork describe exact locations of three mass graves
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FCC: "Nascent" Starlink tech has capacity limits, may not deliver required speed.
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When it comes to echo chambers, TV trumps online.
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ISP's history suggests you can expect only limited availability in each area.
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LG Display says new OLED panel is brighter and more euphonious than rivals.
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The Mid-Infrared Instrument needs to be at 7 Kelvin to work.
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Dealmaster also has Wacom tablets, the Apple Pencil, the Surface Pro 8, and the iPad Mini.
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Designs will be useful for incorporating emoji into apps, art projects, and more.
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Musk has now sold $15.4 billion worth of TSLA shares since agreeing to buy Twitter.
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You lose the rotation bezel, but you gain somewhat confusing temp monitoring.
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Good news for ultrawide screens, ray tracing, and Steam Deck. Bad news for lesser PCs.
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Samsung's foldable lineup gets new chips but otherwise doesn't change much.
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These were the first static fire tests at Starbase in 2022.
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Jared Mauch gets $2.6 million from gov't to expand fiber ISP in rural Michigan.
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Global cases have topped 30,000, and the US is scrambling to vaccinate thousands.
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Katie Moussouris tells it like it is
Black Hat With the world's largest collection of security folk gathering in Las Vegas for Black hat there are encouraging signs that the US government might actually be getting smarter about hiring.…
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'If your business model depends on more aggressive surveillance, maybe you need a new business model'
Private Facebook chats between a Nebraska mother and her daughter has been used by law enforcement to build a criminal case against the teen for getting a now-illegal abortion in her home state.…
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Attack origins point to April 2021 first strike on Japanese target
The Maui ransomware that has been used against US healthcare operations has been linked to Andariel, a North Korean state-sponsored threat with links to the notorious Lazarus Group.…
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Leave it to the economy to throw another wrench into the semiconductor supply chain
In the US, chipmakers and suppliers are scrambling to find a place in line for the more than $52 billion in subsidies and tax breaks up for grabs but that surge in semiconductor demand appears to be faltering.…
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Supermaterial created from heated scales. Sorry about the smell
Scientists in Japan have figured out a new way to create sustainable LEDs: by microwaving fish.…
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Well, until they find out that you've left, but at least they won't be immediately notified of your every move
Many years ago, in the bowels of Silicon Valley, some genius realized that people enjoy getting notifications through social media – those little pings of dopamine that make you feel like you matter.…
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Disclosing exploits, however, will earn you $100k
Simply finding vulnerabilities and patching them "is totally useless," according to Google's Eduardo Vela, who heads the cloud giant's product security response team.…
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Older operating systems excluded from the 4.8.1 release party
Microsoft has updated its venerable .NET Framework once more, this time to add native Arm64 support while also removing support for some older operating systems.…
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Market immediately reacts as tech titan looks to free up cash for 'unlikely' Twitter deal
Tesla supremo Elon Musk has sold $6.88 billion worth of shares in the auto company, saying it is in case some equity partners exit ahead of an eventual Twitter deal, with both events deemed "unlikely."…
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Attack was foiled by content delivery network's hardware security keys
Cloudflare says it was subject to a similar attack to one made on comms company Twilio last week, but in this case it was thwarted by hardware security keys that are required to access applications and services.…
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Business travel, outside training, and picnic overheads all under watchful gaze of Redmond's accountants
Microsoft is telling staff across the entire business to cast a more watchful eye over expenses in the face of economic uncertainty.…
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Researchers cue up AI sims, code and workloads for Argonne Lab's most powerful beast
Argonne National Laboratory has declared its Polaris supercomputer operational, providing the scientific and engineering community with a powerful new research tool, but also serving as a testbed to prepare for the upcoming Aurora exascale system.…
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International relations are hot as chips, and Taiwan cannot afford to empower China
Taiwanese electronics manufacturer and Apple supplier Foxconn will likely be forced to back out of a $800 million investment in Chinese chipmaker and foundry operator Tsinghua Unigroup, thanks to rapidly deteriorating international relations.…
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It makes perfect sense for enterprises as well as enthusiasts. Just ask GitLab
Opinion I've been preaching the gospel of the Linux desktop for more years than some of you have been alive. However, unless you argue that the Linux desktop includes Android smartphones and ChromeOS laptops, there will be no year of the Linux desktop.…
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The game of corporate poker continues but CWU may find investors more interested in dividends
The union representing BT Group workers protesting over their latest pay award are trying to pull as many levers as possible to force further negotiations, including setting up meetings with the telco's biggest investors.…
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Need a cold shower? This is xNix like Windows users imagine it still is
Version 9.3 of NetBSD is here, able to run on very low-end systems and with that authentic early-1990s experience.…
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Too much junk in the orbital trunk
Debris from a Russian anti-satellite missile is causing chaos in orbit, with shards of ex-spacecraft circling the Earth at perilous speeds.…
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Chinese game devs targeted – maybe data protection laws too
Game engine vendor Unity has announced it will commence operations in China, and has attracted a who's who of local tech giants as investors.…
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Sees sunlit uplands ahead with plans for factory and ITaaS expansions
Lenovo's Infrastructure Solutions Group has reported a third straight quarterly profit, and the company sees better days ahead in the field so has ordered expansion of plants in Mexico and Hungary.…
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Interferometry will be used to turn six toaster-sized satellites into one giant solar observatory
NASA has plans to build a telescope six miles (9.66km) wide in Earth orbit, comprised of a constellation of six toaster-sized satellites. The first of those toasters has just been finished. …
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Trade minister says to expect more of this sanctions-busting stuff starting in September
Iran has announced it used cryptocurrency to pay for imports, raising the prospect that the nation is using digital assets to evade sanctions.…
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If you're looking for free speech or privacy, move along
GitHub over the past week has tested the trust of its users by enacting policies that call into question its commitment to free speech and privacy.…
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Hopes to tap expected growth as it levels up to match rivals' presences
Google Cloud has announced it will build facilities in Thailand, Malaysia, and New Zealand.…
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Learn how to record your voice, streaming audio or other sounds on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.
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No macOS is not based on Linux. No macOS is not entirely similar to Linux. Take a look at the similarities and differences between macOS and Linux.
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